Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 76

Then the head itself is impaled on a stick and, carrying this in his hand, the chief dances twice around the company, singing a tune to a burden of syllables.

What happens: impale, carry, sing, burden · To what, where: head, stick, this, hand, tune, burden

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 impaled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impaled	nsubj:pass
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 head	nmod:unmarked
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impaled	aux:pass
6	impaled	impale	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impaled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carrying	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carrying	punct
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stick	conj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 carrying	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carrying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dances	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dances	det
19	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dances	amod
20	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stick	conj
21	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 company	advmod
22	around	around	ADP	_	24 company	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 company	det
24	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dances	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 singing	punct
26	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 impaled	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tune	det
28	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 singing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 burden	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 burden	det
31	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tune	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 syllables	case
33	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burden	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 impaled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	impale	present · passive	the head head		a stick and the chief dances around the company	then	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	carry	gerund	this		chief's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent this=Value in hand=Location
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a tune	a burden of syllables			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tune=Topic to burden=Recipient
4	burden		syllables				nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=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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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 76