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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 89

He then spilled the caribou grease in his water hole in order to deceive Skunk and make him believe that he had a great quantity of meat.

Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: spill, deceive, make, believe, have · To what, where: caribou grease, water hole, Skunk, Wemicus, great quantity · 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 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

nsubjadvmoddetcompoundobjcasenmod:posscompoundoblcasenmodmarkadvclobjccconjobjxcompmarknsubjccompdetamodobjcasenmodpunctrootHePRONthenADVspilledVERBtheDETcaribouNOUNgreaseNOUNinADPhisPRONwaterNOUNholeNOUNinADPorderNOUNtoPARTdeceiveVERBSkunkNOUNandCCONJmakeVERBhimPRONbelieveVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadVERBaDETgreatADJquantityNOUNofADPmeatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 spillednsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 spilledadvmod
3spilledspillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 greasedet
5cariboucaribouNOUNNumber=Sing6 greasecompound
6greasegreaseNOUNNumber=Sing3 spilledobj
7ininADP_10 holecase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 holenmod:poss
9waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing10 holecompound
10holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing3 spilledobl
11ininADP_12 ordercase
12orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing10 holenmod
13totoPART_14 deceivemark
14deceivedeceiveVERBVerbForm=Inf3 spilledadvcl
15SkunkskunkNOUNNumber=Sing14 deceiveobj
16andandCCONJ_17 makecc
17makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf14 deceiveconj
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 makeobj
19believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf17 makexcomp
20thatthatSCONJ_22 hadmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 hadnsubj
22hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 believeccomp
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 quantitydet
24greatgreatADJDegree=Pos25 quantityamod
25quantityquantityNOUNNumber=Sing22 hadobj
26ofofADP_27 meatcase
27meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing25 quantitynmod
28..PUNCT_3 spilledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spillpastWemicusthe caribou greaseWemicus's water hole in orderthenvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grease=Theme
2deceiveto-infinitiveWemicus not said hereSkunkvn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Patient
3makeinfinitiveWemicus not said hereWemicustree rules
4believeinfinitiveWemicus not said herevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5havepastWemicusa great quantity of meatvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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