Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 19

Then he fixed the small fire in the middle so that it would just give enough light to see a little.

Who acts: lot, fire · What happens: fix, give, see · To what, where: small fire, middle, enough light, little

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 (lot, fire), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fixed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fixed	nsubj
3	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fire	amod
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fixed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fixed	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 give	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fixed	advcl
16	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fix	past	lot	the small fire	the middle	then	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2	give	would	fire	enough light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	fire not said here	a little			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 19