Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 55

He went to his little shanty and thought about it all the time, and how he would make things look nice.

Who acts: cook, things · What happens: go, think, make, look · To what, where: little shanty, things

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 (cook, things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 shanty	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shanty	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shanty	amod
6	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 make	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	parataxis
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 look	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	cook		cook's little shanty			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shanty=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	past	cook not said here			time	about shanty	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	make	would	cook	things				tree rules
4	look	infinitive	things not said here				nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 55