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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stone | nmod:poss |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stone | compound |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 35 | punct |
| 8 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 35 | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 threw | compound:prt |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 wigwam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wigwam | det |
| 16 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turned | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wigwam | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wigwam | amod |
| 21 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 25 | except | except | ADP | _ | 28 hole | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hole | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hole | amod |
| 28 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 top | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 top | det |
| 31 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hole | nmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 smoke | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 smoke | det |
| 34 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hole | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 turned | advcl |
| 37 | through | through | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | man's witch stone | then | 35 obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||
| 2 | throw up | past | man not said here | stone | the wigwam | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | participle | the whole wigwam | stone | except a little hole in the top for the smoke | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | come through | to-infinitive | the whole wigwam not said here | through property | vn 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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