Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 174

And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you will give them some of my scabs and tell them to wash them in cold water and boil them with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish.

Who acts: you · What happens: put, eat, give, tell, wash, boil · To what, where: Indians, rock, some, cold water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you), 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	_	7 put	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 put	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Indians	det
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 put	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux:pass
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 put	amod
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 put	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 something	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 give	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 scabs	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 scabs	nmod:poss
22	scabs	scab	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 some	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wash	mark
27	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tell	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wash	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wash	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 boil	cc
33	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wash	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 boil	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 meat	case
36	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meat	compound
37	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 boil	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 kind	cc
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 kind	det
40	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meat	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 meat	case
42	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kind	nmod
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 fish	cc
44	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 meat	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	present · passive		the Indians	rock		for something	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	future	you	some of my scabs	Indians = indian			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient some=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		Indians = indian			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	Indians = indian		cold water		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	boil	present	you not said here	Indians = indian			with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with meat=Instrument

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 174

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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 174