Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 47

He wondered how he could cook them best, so they would taste good.

Who acts: djak, birds · What happens: wonder, cook, taste · To what, where: birds · 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 (djak, birds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cook	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	aux
6	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	obj
8	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 cook	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taste	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 taste	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taste	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 taste	aux
13	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	conj
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 taste	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	djak			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cook	could	djak	birds = bird	well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	taste	would	birds = bird		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 47