Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 153
However, she gave them to him, and Ciŋgibis tied two flints to his feet and placed the chisel in the fire to make it red hot.
Who acts: grandmother, Ciŋgibis · What happens: give, tie, place, make · To what, where: chisel, two flints, fire, flint
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Ciŋgibis), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tied | cc |
| 10 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tied | nsubj |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 flints | nummod |
| 13 | flints | flint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tied | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tied | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 placed | cc |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chisel | det |
| 20 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 placed | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hot | amod |
| 28 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | grandmother | chisel | to Ciŋgibis; however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tie | past | Ciŋgibis | two flints | to Ciŋgibis's feet | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent flint=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | place | past | grandmother not said here | the chisel | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chisel=Theme in fire=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | grandmother not said here | flint | hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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