Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 53

If, in winter, rabbit’s hair is thrown into the smoke of a fire, as it rises in the heat toward the sky, it will cause snow the next day.

Who acts: hair, fire · What happens: throw, rise, cause, smoke · To what, where: rabbit hair, smoke, heat, snow

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 (hair, fire), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 thrown	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rabbit	compound
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	compound
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 rabbit	case
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	aux:pass
10	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 cause	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 smoke	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 smoke	det
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smoke	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rises	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 rises	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rises	nsubj
20	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 heat	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heat	det
23	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rises	obl
24	toward	toward	ADP	_	26 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rises	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thrown	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cause	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 cause	aux
30	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		rabbit hair			into the smoke of a fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into smoke=Result
2	rise	present	hair		the heat		toward the sky	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heat=Location
3	cause	future	hair	snow		day		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition snow=Patient
4	smoke		a fire					nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 53