Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 173
When the water began boiling, Wemicus jumped up on the cross-poles, in vas defaecavit, all over his children and the inside of the wigwam.
Who acts: water, Wemicus · What happens: begin, boil, jump up · To what, where: cross-poles
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 (water, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | advcl |
| 5 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 7 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 cross-poles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cross-poles | det |
| 12 | cross-poles | cross-pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 jumped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 defaecavit | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 defaecavit | case |
| 15 | vas | vas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 defaecavit | compound |
| 16 | defaecavit | defaecavit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 children | punct |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 children | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 jumped | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 inside | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 inside | det |
| 24 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 children | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wigwam | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wigwam | det |
| 27 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inside | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the water | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | boil | gerund | the water not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | jump up | past | Wemicus | the cross-poles | in vas defaecavit; over Wemicus's children and the inside of the wigwam | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cross-pole=Trajectory |
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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