Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 91

Next came the Marten, then the Fisher, then some Wildcats, then Ravens, and in fact all kinds of animals came and began to eat up his supply of meat.

Who acts: Marten, kinds · What happens: come, begin, eat up · To what, where: Wildcats, fact, supply

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 (Marten, kinds), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Marten	det
4	Marten	Marten	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Fisher	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 Fisher	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fisher	det
8	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Marten	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Wildcats	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Wildcats	advmod
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 Wildcats	det
12	Wildcats	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ravens	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 Ravens	advmod
15	Ravens	Raven	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 fact	case
19	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 kinds	det
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 animals	case
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kinds	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 eat	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 supply	nmod:poss
31	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 meat	case
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 supply	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Marten and the Fisher	some Wildcats		Ravens obl; next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	all kinds of animals		fact		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location
3	begin	past	all kinds of animals not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat up	to-infinitive	all kinds of animals not said here	answer's supply of meat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supply=Patient

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 91