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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 145

So the Indians had their feast, and when they threw the bones into the water, one of the little Beavers came back to life and went back to his parents.

Who acts: Indians, little Beavers · What happens: have, throw, come back, go back · To what, where: feast, bones, water, one

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 (Indians, little Beavers), 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

advmoddetnsubjnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetoblpunctoblcasedetamodnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblccconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETIndiansPROPNhadVERBtheirPRONfeastNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONthrewVERBtheDETbonesNOUNintoADPtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCToneNUMofADPtheDETlittleADJBeaversPROPNcameVERBbackADVtoADPlifeNOUNandCCONJwentVERBbackADVtoADPhisPRONparentsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 hadadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Indiansdet
3IndiansIndianPROPNNumber=Plur4 hadnsubj
4hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 feastnmod:poss
6feastfeastNOUNNumber=Sing4 hadobj
7,,PUNCT_11 threwpunct
8andandCCONJ_11 threwcc
9whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 threwadvmod
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 threwnsubj
11threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 hadparataxis
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 bonesdet
13bonesboneNOUNNumber=Plur11 threwobj
14intointoADP_16 watercase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 waterdet
16waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing11 threwobl
17,,PUNCT_18 onepunct
18oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 cameobl
19ofofADP_22 Beaverscase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Beaversdet
21littlelittleADJDegree=Pos22 Beaversamod
22BeaversBeaverPROPNNumber=Plur23 camensubj
23camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 threwconj
24backbackADV_23 cameadvmod
25totoADP_26 lifecase
26lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing24 backobl
27andandCCONJ_28 wentcc
28wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 cameconj
29backbackADV_28 wentadvmod
30totoADP_32 parentscase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 parentsnmod:poss
32parentsparentNOUNNumber=Plur28 wentobl
33..PUNCT_4 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe IndiansIndians's feastvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
2throwpastIndians = indianthe bonesinto the water resultvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bone=Theme into water=Result
3come backpastthe little Beaversonevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4go backpastthe little Beavers not said hereto Beaver's parents resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result

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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