Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 59

Everything around the house was very clean, the poles were scraped clean of their bark and were perfectly white, while there was neither smoke nor ashes to be seen anywhere.

Who acts: Everything, smoke · What happens: be, scrape, see · To what, where: poles

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 (Everything, smoke), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 clean	nsubj
2	around	around	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everything	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 clean	advmod
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scraped	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poles	det
10	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scraped	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scraped	aux:pass
12	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 clean	conj
13	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scraped	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 bark	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bark	nmod:poss
16	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clean	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 white	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 white	cop
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	20 white	advmod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scraped	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 was	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	parataxis
25	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	26 smoke	det
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 ashes	cc
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 smoke	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 seen	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 seen	aux:pass
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 smoke	acl
32	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 seen	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything around the house			clean property	tree rules
2	scrape	past · passive		the poles		clean property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past				perfectly, white property	tree rules
4	be	past	neither smoke nor ashes		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive · passive	neither smoke nor ashes not said here			anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 59