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description: 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. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., with its dep
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 67

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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.

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**Who acts:** Indian, King, young couple, men · **What happens:** come up, call, have, marry, stay · **To what, where:** preacher, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Indian, King, young couple, men), 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:pg76755:28:67
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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