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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 42

Then he took his witch stone [35] and threw it up inside the wigwam, and the whole wigwam turned to stone except a little hole in the top for the smoke to come through.

Who acts: man, whole wigwam · What happens: take, throw up, turn, come through · To what, where: witch stone, stone, wigwam

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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, whole wigwam), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:posscompoundobjpunctoblpunctccconjobjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctccdetamodnsubjparataxiscaseoblcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodmarkadvcladvmodpunctrootThenADVhePRONtookVERBhisPRONwitchNOUNstoneNOUN[PUNCT35NUM]PUNCTandCCONJthrewVERBitPRONupADPinsideADPtheDETwigwamNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETwholeADJwigwamNOUNturnedVERBtoADPstoneNOUNexceptADPaDETlittleADJholeNOUNinADPtheDETtopNOUNforADPtheDETsmokeNOUNtoPARTcomeVERBthroughADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 tookadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 stonenmod:poss
5witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing6 stonecompound
6stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
7[[PUNCT_8 35punct
83535NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card3 tookobl
9]]PUNCT_8 35punct
10andandCCONJ_11 threwcc
11threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 threwobj
13upupADP_11 threwcompound:prt
14insideinsideADP_16 wigwamcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 wigwamdet
16wigwamwigwamNOUNNumber=Sing11 threwobl
17,,PUNCT_22 turnedpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 turnedcc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 wigwamdet
20wholewholeADJDegree=Pos21 wigwamamod
21wigwamwigwamNOUNNumber=Sing22 turnednsubj
22turnedturnVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 tookparataxis
23totoADP_24 stonecase
24stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing22 turnedobl
25exceptexceptADP_28 holecase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 holedet
27littlelittleADJDegree=Pos28 holeamod
28holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing22 turnedobl
29ininADP_31 topcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 topdet
31toptopNOUNNumber=Sing28 holenmod
32forforADP_34 smokecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 smokedet
34smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing28 holenmod
35totoPART_36 comemark
36comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 turnedadvcl
37throughthroughADV_36 comeadvmod
38..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastmanman's witch stonethen35 oblvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2throw uppastman not said herestonethe wigwamvn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3turnparticiplethe whole wigwamstoneexcept a little hole in the top for the smokevn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory
4come throughto-infinitivethe whole wigwam not said herethrough propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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