Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 152
Then he jumped up upon the cross poles in his wigwam [25] and in vas lapidum sub se [26] defaecavit, telling his wife to stir up the contents of the pot.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: jump up, be, tell, stir up · To what, where: wigwam, 26 defaecavit, wife, contents · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wemicus), 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 | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 poles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poles | det |
| 7 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poles | compound |
| 8 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jumped | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wigwam | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 25 | punct |
| 13 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 wigwam | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 25 | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 se | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lapidum | case |
| 17 | vas | vas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lapidum | compound |
| 18 | lapidum | lapidum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 se | obl |
| 19 | sub | sub | ADV | _ | 18 lapidum | punct |
| 20 | se | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 26 | punct |
| 22 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 defaecavit | nummod |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 26 | punct |
| 24 | defaecavit | defaecavit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 se | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 telling | punct |
| 26 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 se | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 telling | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stir | mark |
| 30 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 telling | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 stir | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 contents | det |
| 33 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 stir | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pot | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pot | det |
| 36 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 contents | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's wigwam | then | upon the cross poles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon pole=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | be | present | Wemicus not said here | 26 defaecavit | in vas lapidum | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot defaecavit=Theme in lapidum=Attribute | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stir up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the contents of the pot | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition contents=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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