Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 44
They put the wigwam in order and Wemicus fixed up a big pine like that belonging to Meme and cut two pieces of wood, which he pointed and shoved into his nose to imitate Meme.
Who acts: potatoes, that, Wemicus · What happens: put, fix up, belong, cut, point, shove · To what, where: wigwam, order, Wemicus, Meme, two pieces, nose
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 (potatoes, that, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wigwam | det |
| 4 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fixed | cc |
| 8 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 fixed | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pine | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pine | amod |
| 13 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fixed | obj |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 16 belonging | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 belonging | nsubj |
| 16 | belonging | belong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fixed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Meme | case |
| 18 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 belonging | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pieces | nummod |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pieces | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pointed | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 pointed | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pointed | nsubj |
| 28 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shoved | cc |
| 30 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pointed | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 nose | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 nose | nmod:poss |
| 33 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shoved | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 imitate | mark |
| 35 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 shoved | advcl |
| 36 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 imitate | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | potatoes = potato | the wigwam | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 2 | fix up | participle · passive | Wemicus | a big pine obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pine=Product | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | that | Meme | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | past | potatoes = potato not said here | two pieces of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product | ||||
| 5 | point | past | Wemicus | two pieces of wood | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 6 | shove | past | Wemicus not said here | Meme's nose | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into nose=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | imitate | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | Meme | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meme=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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