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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 159

The child did the bidding of his mother and, when the mitten was thrown to Wemicus, he said, “Ask your father to come and see me,” and he named a certain day.

Who acts: child, Wemicus · What happens: do, throw, say, ask, come, see · To what, where: bidding, mitten, Wemicus, father, mother · 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 (child, 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

detnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodccpunctmarkdetnsubj:passaux:passconjcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxispunctpunctccompnmod:possobjmarkxcompccconjobjpunctpunctccnsubjconjdetamodobl:unmarkedpunctrootTheDETchildNOUNdidVERBtheDETbiddingNOUNofADPhisPRONmotherNOUNandCCONJ,PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETmittenNOUNwasAUXthrownVERBtoADPWemicusPROPN,PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTAskVERByourPRONfatherNOUNtoPARTcomeVERBandCCONJseeVERBmePRON,PUNCT”PUNCTandCCONJhePRONnamedVERBaDETcertainADJdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 childdet
2childchildNOUNNumber=Sing3 didnsubj
3diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 biddingdet
5biddingbiddingNOUNNumber=Sing3 didobj
6ofofADP_8 mothercase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 mothernmod:poss
8mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing5 biddingnmod
9andandCCONJ_15 throwncc
10,,PUNCT_15 thrownpunct
11whenwhenSCONJ_15 thrownmark
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 mittendet
13mittenmittenNOUNNumber=Sing15 thrownnsubj:pass
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 thrownaux:pass
15thrownthrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 didconj
16totoADP_17 Wemicuscase
17WemicusWemicusPROPNNumber=Sing15 thrownobl
18,,PUNCT_20 saidpunct
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 saidnsubj
20saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 didparataxis
21,,PUNCT_23 Askpunct
22“"PUNCT_23 Askpunct
23AskaskVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin20 saidccomp
24youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 fathernmod:poss
25fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing23 Askobj
26totoPART_27 comemark
27comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf23 Askxcomp
28andandCCONJ_29 seecc
29seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 comeconj
30meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 seeobj
31,,PUNCT_23 Askpunct
32”"PUNCT_23 Askpunct
33andandCCONJ_35 namedcc
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 namednsubj
35namednameVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 saidconj
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 daydet
37certaincertainADJDegree=Pos38 dayamod
38daydayNOUNNumber=Sing35 namedobl:unmarked
39..PUNCT_3 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe childthe bidding of Wemicus's mothervn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
2throwpast · passivethe mittenWemicusvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to wemicus=Destination
3say speech: assertpastWemicusvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4ask speech: ask in a quoteinfinitiveyour fathervn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
5come not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6see in a quoteinfinitiveWemicusvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7namepastWemicusdayvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8bidWemicus's mothernom bidding «communication 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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