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title: His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to ask him if there were any Indians living nearby. Who acts: brother, supper, Indians. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 12

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His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to ask him if there were any Indians living nearby.

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**Who acts:** brother, supper, Indians · **What happens:** come, begin, ask, be, live · **To what, where:** elder

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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 (brother, supper, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76755:28:12
# text = His brother came home at night and after supper the younger began to ask him if there were any Indians living nearby.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | elder's brother |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | supper |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | supper *not said here* |  | elder |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | any Indians |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | any Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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