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

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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.

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

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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 (this, three boys), 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:pg76755:28:72
# text = 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.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	overboard	overboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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