Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 114
He then wrapped his feet with spruce boughs and pushed the boulder ahead of him in order to melt the snow.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: wrap, push, melt · To what, where: feet, boulder, order, snow
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 3. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wrapped | advmod |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 boughs | case |
| 7 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boughs | compound |
| 8 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pushed | cc |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boulder | det |
| 12 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obj |
| 13 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 10 pushed | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ahead | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 melt | mark |
| 19 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snow | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 melt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's feet | then | with spruce boughs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Destination with bough=Theme | ||
| 2 | push | past | Wemicus not said here | the boulder | order | ahead property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boulder=Theme in order=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | melt | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result |
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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