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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 153

Then he wished himself to be changed into an ant in order to get into the skull and get enough to eat, for there was only about an ant’s meal left.

Who acts: little, meal · What happens: wish, change, get, eat, be, leave · To what, where: little, ant, skull, enough · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, meal), 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

advmodnsubjobjmarkaux:passccompcasedetoblmarkfixedmarkadvclcasedetoblccconjobjmarkadvclpunctmarkexpladvcladvmodadvmoddetnmod:posscasensubjadvclpunctrootThenADVhePRONwishedVERBhimselfPRONtoPARTbeAUXchangedVERBintoADPanDETantNOUNinSCONJorderNOUNtoPARTgetVERBintoADPtheDETskullNOUNandCCONJgetVERBenoughADJtoPARTeatVERB,PUNCTforSCONJtherePRONwasVERBonlyADVaboutADVanDETantNOUN’sPARTmealNOUNleftVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 wishedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wishednsubj
3wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes3 wishedobj
5totoPART_7 changedmark
6bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf7 changedaux:pass
7changedchangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 wishedccomp
8intointoADP_10 antcase
9anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 antdet
10antantNOUNNumber=Sing7 changedobl
11ininSCONJExtPos=SCONJ14 getmark
12orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing11 infixed
13totoPART_14 getmark
14getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf7 changedadvcl
15intointoADP_17 skullcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 skulldet
17skullskullNOUNNumber=Sing14 getobl
18andandCCONJ_19 getcc
19getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf14 getconj
20enoughenoughADJDegree=Pos19 getobj
21totoPART_22 eatmark
22eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf20 enoughadvcl
23,,PUNCT_26 waspunct
24forforSCONJ_26 wasmark
25theretherePRONPronType=Dem26 wasexpl
26wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 leftadvcl
27onlyonlyADV_32 mealadvmod
28aboutaboutADV_32 mealadvmod
29anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 antdet
30antantNOUNNumber=Sing32 mealnmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 antcase
32mealmealNOUNNumber=Sing33 leftnsubj
33leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wishedadvcl
34..PUNCT_3 wishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wishpastlittlelittlethentree rules
2change not said to happento-infinitive · passiveinto a ant resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into ant=Result
3getto-infinitivethe skullvn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into skull=Destination
4getinfinitiveenoughvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
5eatto-infinitivevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6bepasta ant's meal not said heretherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7leavepasta ant's mealvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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