Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 104

I’ll just tie it by a string to a stick and let it float in the river until it is cool, and then I’ll make a good meal of that anyway.”

Who acts: I, meat · What happens: tie, let, float, be, make · To what, where: meat, river, good meal

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, meat), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tie	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tie	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 tie	advmod
4	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tie	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 string	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tie	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 stick	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tie	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tie	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 float	obl
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 cool	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cool	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cool	cop
22	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 float	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 make	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tie	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 meal	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 meal	amod
31	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 meal	nmod
34	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	28 make	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tie	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	future	I	meat			by a string; to a stick	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to stick=Co-Patient
2	let	infinitive	I not said here	meat				tree rules
3	float	infinitive	meat not said here		the river			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory
4	is	present	meat				cool property	tree rules
5	make	future	I	a good meal of that		then	anyway property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product

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, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 104