Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 47

When the hour came to eat they all sat down and the King came out and also sat down and started to eat.

Who acts: hour, Indians, King · What happens: come, eat, sit down, come out, start

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, Indians, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sat	advmod
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 started	cc
21	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 started	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	the hour		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	the hour not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	Indians = indian		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come out	past	the King	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	sit down	past	the King not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	start	past	the King not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	eat	to-infinitive	the King not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 47