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

It is not proper to tell stories in summer, lest one die; but, if stories are told, they must be told for ten successive evenings in order to prevent the evil.

Who acts: It · What happens: not be, tell, prevent · To what, where: stories, evil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proper	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 proper	advmod
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proper	xcomp
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 die	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 die	nummod
13	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 but	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	nsubj:pass
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 told	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj:pass
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	aux:pass
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 proper	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 evenings	case
27	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 evenings	nummod
28	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 evenings	amod
29	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 order	case
31	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 evenings	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 prevent	mark
33	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 evil	det
35	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 prevent	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It			proper property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		stories	summer	lest one die	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	must · passive		stories = story	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	prevent	to-infinitive		the evil			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer evil=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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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 2