Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 67
The Indian came up and the King called a preacher and had the young couple married right there, and they stayed there at the King’s house.
Who acts: Indian, King, young couple, men · What happens: come up, call, have, marry, stay · To what, where: preacher, house · 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 (Indian, King, young couple, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 preacher | det |
| 10 | preacher | preacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 couple | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 couple | amod |
| 15 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 married | nsubj |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 married | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stayed | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stayed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the Indian | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | past | the King | a preacher | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent preacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | past | the young couple | there | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | men = man | the King's house; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
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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