Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 176

And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any kind of oil they can oil them a little and roast them before the fire and that it will give them good nourishment when they are hard put to it for something to eat.”

Who acts: you, Scabs, kind, rock · What happens: tell, have, oil, roast, give, be · To what, where: Scabs, kinds, good nourishment, rock, biggest scabs · 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, Scabs, kind, rock), 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	_	5 scabs	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 scabs	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scabs	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 scabs	amod
5	scabs	scab	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scabs	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 oil	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 oil	case
18	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 oil	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 oil	aux
21	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 have	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roast	cc
26	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 roast	obj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roast	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 give	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 give	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nourishment	amod
38	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 hard	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hard	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 hard	cop
42	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 give	advcl
43	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 hard	acl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 put	obl
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 something	case
47	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 put	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 eat	mark
49	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 something	acl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you		Scabs = scab			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	have a condition, not said to happen	present	Scabs = scab	kinds = kind			a little obl:unmarked	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	oil	can	any kind of oil				Scabs = scab nsubj	tree rules
4	roast	infinitive	you not said here	Scabs = scab		before the fire		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	give	future	rock	good nourishment	Scabs = scab			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nourishment=Theme
6	is	present	Scabs = scab				hard property	tree rules
7	put	participle			rock		for something	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «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 176

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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 176