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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 25

Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning.

Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, put, leave, look · To what, where: father, wooden dish upside, fire, upside · 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 (girl), 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

advmodnsubjiobjmarkxcompnmod:possamodcompoundobjadvmodcasedetoblccmarkconjobjadvmodnummodoblccnummodconjccmarkconjcaseobldetobl:unmarkedpunctrootThenADVshePRONtoldVERBhimPRONtoPARTputVERBhisPRONwoodenADJdishNOUNupsideNOUNdownADVbeforeADPtheDETfireNOUNandCCONJtoPARTleaveVERBitPRONthereADVfourNUMdaysNOUNandCCONJfourNUMnightsNOUNandCCONJtoPARTlookVERBunderADPitPRONeveryDETmorningNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 toldadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toldnsubj
3toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toldiobj
5totoPART_6 putmark
6putputVERBVerbForm=Inf3 toldxcomp
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 upsidenmod:poss
8woodenwoodenADJDegree=Pos10 upsideamod
9dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing10 upsidecompound
10upsideupsideNOUNNumber=Sing6 putobj
11downdownADV_6 putadvmod
12beforebeforeADP_14 firecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 firedet
14firefireNOUNNumber=Sing6 putobl
15andandCCONJ_17 leavecc
16totoPART_17 leavemark
17leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf6 putconj
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 leaveobj
19therethereADVPronType=Dem17 leaveadvmod
20fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card21 daysnummod
21daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur17 leaveobl
22andandCCONJ_24 nightscc
23fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card24 nightsnummod
24nightsnightNOUNNumber=Plur21 daysconj
25andandCCONJ_27 lookcc
26totoPART_27 lookmark
27looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf17 leaveconj
28underunderADP_29 itcase
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 lookobl
30everyeveryDETPronType=Tot31 morningdet
31morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing27 lookobl:unmarked
32..PUNCT_3 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastgirlfatherthenvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2put not said to happento-infinitivegirl not said herefather's wooden dish upsidethe firedown propertyvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upside=Theme before fire=Destination
3leaveto-infinitivegirl not said hereupsidetheredayvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4lookto-infinitivegirl not said heremorningunder upsidevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=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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