Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 73

Now, just as he was ready to begin, the wind began to blow a little, and at the same time from above came a little cry, “Whun!”

Who acts: djak, wind · What happens: be, begin, blow, come · To what, where: little, little cry

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 (djak, wind), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ready	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 ready	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 ready	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ready	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 begin	mark
9	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 blow	mark
15	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blow	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 above	case
25	above	above	ADV	_	26 came	obl
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cry	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cry	amod
29	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Whun	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Whun	punct
32	Whun	whun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cry	appos
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Whun	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 Whun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	djak		now	ready property	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	djak not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	begin	past	the wind				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	blow	to-infinitive	the wind not said here	a little			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent little=Patient
5	come	past	djak not said here	a little cry	time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=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, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 73