Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 22

When he came to camp he told his father about it, and his father and several other men, together with the young man, went back to examine it.

Who acts: story, father · What happens: come, camp, tell, go back, examine · To what, where: father, lightning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, father), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 camp	mark
5	camp	camp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 camp	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 men	cc
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 father	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
21	together	together	ADV	_	25 man	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 examine	mark
30	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 examine	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	story			tree rules
2	camp	to-infinitive	story not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	story		story's father about lightning	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
4	go back	past	story's father and several other men and the young man			tree rules
5	examine	to-infinitive	story's father and several other men and the young man not said here	lightning		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Creation of Man., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 22