Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 141

In those days people used to cut a flat bone from the hind foot of the beaver and throw it into the water, so that the dogs wouldn’t get it.

Who acts: people, dogs · What happens: use, cut, throw, not get · To what, where: flat bone, hind foot, bone, water

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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, dogs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	nsubj
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bone	det
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bone	amod
10	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 foot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foot	det
13	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foot	amod
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 beaver	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beaver	det
17	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foot	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 throw	cc
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 throw	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 get	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dogs	det
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	people			day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut	to-infinitive	people not said here	a flat bone	the hind foot of the beaver			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset bone=Product from foot=Material
3	throw	infinitive	people not said here	bone			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=Result
4	not get	would	the dogs	bone				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 7, sentence 141

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 141