Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 47
When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the tree and pecked upon it in imitation of Meme.
Who acts: wife, water, Wemicus · What happens: have, boil, climb up, peck, imitate · To what, where: water, tree, imitation, Meme
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 (wife, 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 | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 climbed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 water | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pail | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pail | det |
| 9 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boiling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 climbed | nsubj |
| 12 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 climbed | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climbed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pecked | cc |
| 17 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 climbed | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pecked | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 imitation | case |
| 21 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pecked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Meme | case |
| 23 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 imitation | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wife | the water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | boil | gerund | the water not said here | in the pail | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pail=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | climb up | past | Wemicus | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | peck | participle | Wemicus not said here | imitation of Meme | upon tree | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location | |||
| 5 | imitate | Meme | nom imitation «cognition 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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