Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 50

A whirling buzzer, made by spinning a bone or wooden disk on a string operated by the two hands, will cause the wind to rise.

Who acts: whirling buzzer · What happens: whirl, make, spin, operate, cause, rise · To what, where: whirling buzzer, bone, string, wind

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 (whirling buzzer), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 buzzer	det
2	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 buzzer	amod
3	buzzer	buzzer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cause	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 buzzer	acl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 spinning	mark
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bone	det
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 disk	cc
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 disk	amod
12	disk	disk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bone	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 string	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 string	det
15	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disk	nmod
16	operated	operate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 string	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hands	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hands	nummod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 operated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 buzzer	punct
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cause	aux
23	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wind	det
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cause	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rise	mark
27	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wind	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whirl	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle		a whirling buzzer not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	spin	gerund		a bone or wooden disk on a string		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
4	operate	participle		a string not said here	by the two hands	vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cause	future	a whirling buzzer	the wind		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wind=Patient
6	rise	to-infinitive	a whirling buzzer not said here	the wind not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 50