Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 44

To foretell what kind of animals will be killed the next day by men just before going hunting, a partridge breast bone is burnt or scorched before the fire.

What happens: foretell, kill, go, burnt, scorch · To what, where: kind, hunting, breast bone

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 foretell	mark
2	foretell	foretell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 killed	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 killed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 killed	aux:pass
9	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 foretell	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foretell	obl:unmarked
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 foretell	obl
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 foretell	advcl
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burnt	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bone	det
21	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 breast	compound
22	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bone	compound
23	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burnt	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 burnt	aux:pass
25	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hunting	parataxis
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 scorched	cc
27	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 burnt	conj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scorched	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 foretell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	foretell	to-infinitive		day	by men	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	kill	future · passive	what kind of animals			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	go	gerund	hunting			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme
4	burnt	present · passive	a breast bone			tree rules
5	scorch	participle		before the fire		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 44