Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 53

Some of the boys knew that the Indian boy was a good cook, and one of them went over to the Indian boy and asked him if he would try.

Who acts: boys, Indian boy, one, cook · What happens: know, be, go over, ask, try · To what, where: good cook, cook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boys, Indian boy, one, cook), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 boys	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 boys	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cook	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cook	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cook	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cook	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cook	amod
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 went	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	parataxis
20	over	over	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 boy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	iobj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 try	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 try	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 try	aux
31	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	some boys				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the Indian boy	a good cook			tree rules
3	go over	past	one of boys			to the Indian boy; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	one of boys not said here		cook		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	try a condition, not said to happen	would	cook				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 53

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Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 53