Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 169

And when the Indians get short of tobacco they will cut you and scrape the bark off you and dry you and use you to smoke for their tobacco.”

Who acts: Indians · What happens: get, cut, scrape, dry, use, smoke · To what, where: you, bark

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 cut	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Indians	det
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	advcl
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tobacco	case
8	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	aux
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 cut	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scrape	cc
14	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cut	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bark	det
16	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scrape	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 scrape	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dry	cc
20	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cut	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 dry	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 use	cc
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 use	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 smoke	mark
26	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 tobacco	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tobacco	nmod:poss
29	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	the Indians		short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	cut	future	Indians = indian	you		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
3	scrape	infinitive	Indians = indian not said here	the bark	off you	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bark=Theme off you=Trajectory
4	dry	infinitive	Indians = indian not said here	you		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
5	use	present	Indians = indian not said here	you		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	smoke	to-infinitive	Indians = indian not said here		for Indians's tobacco	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 169

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 169