Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 177

So from that time the Indians have used red willow bark to smoke and the “rock weed” to eat when they have needed them.

Who acts: Indians · What happens: use, smoke, eat, need · To what, where: red willow bark, Indians

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	So	so	ADV	_	8 used	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indians	det
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 used	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 used	aux
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bark	amod
10	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	compound
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 smoke	mark
13	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bark	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 weed	det
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 weed	punct
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weed	compound
18	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	conj
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 weed	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 weed	acl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 needed	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 needed	aux
25	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 eat	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 needed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · perfect	the Indians	red willow bark and the rock weed	time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient
2	smoke	to-infinitive	the Indians not said here	red willow bark and the rock weed not said here			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	to-infinitive	the Indians not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	need	present · perfect · passive		Indians = indian		Scabs = scab obj	tree rules

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 177

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 177