Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 97

This man’s wife, the daughter of Wemicus, had had a great many husbands, because Wemicus had put them to so many different tests that they had been all killed off except this one.

Who acts: wife · What happens: have, put, kill off · To what, where: great many husbands, Wemicus, tests

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), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 daughter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Wemicus	case
9	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 husbands	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 husbands	amod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 husbands	amod
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
19	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 put	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	21 put	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tests	amod
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tests	amod
27	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 killed	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 killed	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 killed	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 killed	aux:pass
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 killed	advmod
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 put	advcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 killed	compound:prt
35	except	except	ADP	_	37 one	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 killed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	this man's wife and the daughter of Wemicus	a great many husbands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
2	put	past · perfect · passive		Wemicus	husbands = husband obj; many different tests obj	tree rules
3	kill off	past · perfect · passive		tests = test	except this one; all property	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: subject=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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 97