Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 194

Every once in a while he would give a big feast, build a big wigwam, and invite all the men and women to come in and eat with him.

Who acts: chief, men · What happens: give, build, invite, come in, eat · To what, where: big feast, big wigwam, men

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 (chief, men), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 once	det
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 give	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 while	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feast	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feast	amod
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 build	punct
13	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wigwam	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wigwam	amod
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 invite	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 invite	cc
19	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 men	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 invite	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 women	cc
24	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 men	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 invite	xcomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	would	chief	a big feast	once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
2	build	infinitive	chief not said here	a big wigwam		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wigwam=Product
3	invite	infinitive	chief not said here	all men and women		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	all men and women not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	infinitive	all men and women not said here		with chief	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 4, sentence 194

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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 194