Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 47

The tips of the wings of birds that are killed for food are preserved about the camp for good luck, or, as they say, “to ask for more luck.”

Who acts: tips · What happens: kill, preserve, say, ask · To what, where: birds, tips · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (tips), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tips	det
2	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 preserved	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wings	det
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tips	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wings	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 killed	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux:pass
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 birds	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	obl
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 preserved	aux:pass
14	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 camp	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 camp	det
17	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preserved	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 luck	case
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 luck	amod
20	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preserved	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 or	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 say	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 preserved	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ask	mark
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 say	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 luck	case
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 luck	amod
33	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ask	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 preserved	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 preserved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present · passive		birds	for food	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	preserve	present · passive		the tips of the wings of birds	about the camp; for good luck	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	present	tips = tip			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	tips = tip not said here		for more luck	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 47