Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 72

One of the boys thought that this would be a good chance to kill the Indian, so three boys got together and made a plan to throw the Indian overboard.

Who acts: this, three boys · What happens: think, be, kill, get together, make, throw · To what, where: One, good chance, Indian, plan, Indian overboard

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 (this, three boys), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thought	obl
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 thought	obl
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 chance	mark
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 chance	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 chance	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 chance	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chance	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chance	amod
12	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 kill	mark
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chance	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Indian	det
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 boys	nummod
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	parataxis
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 plan	det
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 throw	mark
28	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 plan	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 overboard	det
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 overboard	amod
31	overboard	overboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 throw	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		One	of the boys	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	this	a good chance		tree rules
3	kill	to-infinitive		the Indian		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Theme
4	get together	past	three boys		together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	past	three boys not said here	a plan		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
6	throw	to-infinitive	three boys not said here	the Indian overboard		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent overboard=Theme

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 72

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Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 72