Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 42
When rain is needed, squirrels are boiled purposely to bring it.
What happens: need, boil, bring · To what, where: rain, squirrels
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 needed | advmod |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 needed | aux:pass |
| 4 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boiled | punct |
| 6 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boiled | aux:pass |
| 8 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 needed | conj |
| 9 | purposely | purposely | ADV | _ | 8 boiled | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 boiled | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | rain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | boil | present · passive | squirrels | purposely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | rain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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