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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 2

There was a conjurer (mi·te′w), [49] whose name was Gitcikwe′we (“buzzing noise”), his wife Pi·dje′ʻkwe [50] and their children, camping at a lake in a wigwam.

Who acts: conjurer, 49, we, Gitcikwe ′ · What happens: be, camp, name · To what, where: Gitcikwe ′, lake

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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conjurer, 49, we, Gitcikwe ′), 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

expldetnsubjpunctappospunctcompoundcompoundconjpunctpunctpunctnsubjpunctnmod:possnsubjcopcompoundoblnsubjpunctpunctcompoundappospunctpunctpunctnmod:possnmod:descconjpunctamodflat:foreignappospunctappospunctccnmod:possconjpunctacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctrootTherePRONwasVERBaDETconjurerNOUN(PUNCTmiNOUN·PUNCTteNOUN′NOUNwNOUN)PUNCT,PUNCT[PUNCT49NUM]PUNCTwhosePRONnameNOUNwasAUXGitcikwePROPN′NOUNwePRON(PUNCT“PUNCTbuzzingNOUNnoiseNOUN”PUNCT)PUNCT,PUNCThisPRONwifeNOUNPiPROPN·PUNCTdjeX′XʻkweNOUN[PUNCT50NUM]PUNCTandCCONJtheirPRONchildrenNOUN,PUNCTcampingVERBatADPaDETlakeNOUNinADPaDETwigwamNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 wasexpl
2wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 conjurerdet
4conjurerconjurerNOUNNumber=Sing2 wasnsubj
5((PUNCT_6 mipunct
6mimiNOUNNumber=Sing4 conjurerappos
7··PUNCT_10 wpunct
8teteNOUNNumber=Sing9 ′compound
9′′NOUNNumber=Sing10 wcompound
10wwNOUNNumber=Sing6 miconj
11))PUNCT_6 mipunct
12,,PUNCT_20 ′punct
13[[PUNCT_14 49punct
144949NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card20 ′nsubj
15]]PUNCT_14 49punct
16whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel17 namenmod:poss
17namenameNOUNNumber=Sing20 ′nsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 ′cop
19GitcikweGitcikwePROPNNumber=Sing20 ′compound
20′′NOUNNumber=Sing2 wasobl
21wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs43 campingnsubj
22((PUNCT_25 noisepunct
23“"PUNCT_25 noisepunct
24buzzingbuzzingNOUNNumber=Sing25 noisecompound
25noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing21 weappos
26”"PUNCT_25 noisepunct
27))PUNCT_25 noisepunct
28,,PUNCT_31 Pipunct
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 wifenmod:poss
30wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing31 Pinmod:desc
31PiPiPROPNNumber=Sing21 weconj
32··PUNCT_35 ʻkwepunct
33djedjeXForeign=Yes35 ʻkweamod
34′′XForeign=Yes33 djeflat:foreign
35ʻkweʻkweNOUNNumber=Sing31 Piappos
36[[PUNCT_37 50punct
375050NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card35 ʻkweappos
38]]PUNCT_37 50punct
39andandCCONJ_41 childrencc
40theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 childrennmod:poss
41childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur21 weconj
42,,PUNCT_43 campingpunct
43campingcampVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 ′acl:relcl
44atatADP_46 lakecase
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 lakedet
46lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing43 campingobl
47ininADP_49 wigwamcase
48aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art49 wigwamdet
49wigwamwigwamNOUNNumber=Sing43 campingobl
50..PUNCT_2 waspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepasta conjurertherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is apast49Gitcikwe ′Gitcikwe ′'s name nsubjtree rules
3campgerundweGitcikwe ′ not said herea lakein a wigwamvn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ′=Theme at lake=Location
4nameGitcikwe ′nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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