Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 196
Then they would come in, sit around the inside of his big wigwam and pass the food around from one to the other.
Who acts: men · What happens: come in, sit, pass around · To what, where: inside, food
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 inside | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inside | det |
| 10 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wigwam | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wigwam | amod |
| 14 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inside | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pass | cc |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sit | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 food | det |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pass | obj |
| 19 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 pass | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pass | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | would | men = man | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | men = man not said here | the inside of chief's big wigwam | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around inside=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass around | present | men = man not said here | the food | from one to the other; around property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent food=Theme from one=Initial_Location |
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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