Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 72

Before they begin to eat, the chief goes around to each guest and with a big wooden spoon, holding about a cupful and a half, gives each a spoonful of grease.

Who acts: guests, chief · What happens: begin, eat, go around, hold, give · To what, where: spoonful

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 (guests, chief), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 begin	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begin	nsubj
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begin	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 goes	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 guest	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 guest	det
13	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoon	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 spoon	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spoon	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spoon	amod
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spoon	amod
19	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guest	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 holding	punct
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 goes	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 cupful	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cupful	det
24	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 half	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 half	det
27	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 cupful	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gives	punct
29	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 spoonful	det
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spoonful	det
32	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gives	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 grease	case
34	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spoonful	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	guests = guest			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	guests = guest not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go around	present	the chief		to each guest and a big wooden spoon; around property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to guest=Initial_Location
4	hold	gerund	the chief not said here		about a cupful and a half	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cupful=Location
5	give	present	the chief not said here	each spoonful of grease		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Theme

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 72