Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 58

Whenever he would encounter people, he would approach them et pepedit towards their camp with his back to them, killing the people malo ejus odore.

Who acts: Aniwɔ, people · What happens: encounter, approach, kill, malo · To what, where: people, odore

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 (Aniwɔ, people), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 encounter	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 encounter	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 encounter	aux
4	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 encounter	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 approach	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 approach	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 approach	aux
9	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 encounter	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 approach	obj
11	et	et	X	Foreign=Yes	12 pepedit	compound
12	pepedit	pepedit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 approach	obj
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 camp	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 camp	nmod:poss
15	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 approach	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 camp	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 killing	punct
22	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 approach	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 malo	nsubj
25	malo	malo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 killing	ccomp
26	ejus	ejus	ADV	_	27 odore	advmod
27	odore	odore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 malo	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 encounter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	encounter	would	Aniwɔ	people	whenever property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	approach	would	Aniwɔ	people	towards people's camp with Aniwɔ's back to people; et pepedit obj	tree rules
3	kill	gerund	Aniwɔ not said here			tree rules
4	malo	past	the people	odore		tree rules

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 5, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 58