Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 64

Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beaver’s tail, telling him to dive and to try and reach the land underneath.

Who acts: Nenebuc · What happens: make, tie, tell, dive, try, reach · To what, where: rope, Nenebuc, land · 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 (Nenebuc), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 roots	case
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rope	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tied	cc
12	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tied	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 tail	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Beaver	det
16	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tail	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Beaver	case
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 telling	punct
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tied	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dive	mark
23	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 telling	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 try	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 try	mark
26	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dive	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reach	cc
28	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 try	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 land	det
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reach	obj
31	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	28 reach	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Nenebuc	a rope of roots		time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product
2	tie	past	Nenebuc not said here	rope			to the Beaver's tail	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Nenebuc not said here		Nenebuc			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nenebuc not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	try	to-infinitive	Nenebuc not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	reach	infinitive	Nenebuc not said here	the land			underneath property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 64

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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 64