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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 49

When he got the fire well started, he got a stick and sharpened its point; then with this he loosened up the ground all around and under the fire.

Who acts: djak, fire · What happens: get, start, sharpen, loosen up, point · To what, where: fire, stick, point, ground

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, 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

advmodnsubjadvcldetobjadvmodacl:relclpunctnsubjdetobjccconjnmod:possobjpunctadvmodcaseoblnsubjconjcompound:prtdetobjadvmodadvmodcccasedetconjpunctrootWhenADVhePRONgotVERBtheDETfireNOUNwellADVstartedVERB,PUNCThePRONgotVERBaDETstickNOUNandCCONJsharpenedVERBitsPRONpointNOUN;PUNCTthenADVwithADPthisPRONhePRONloosenedVERBupADPtheDETgroundNOUNallADVaroundADVandCCONJunderADPtheDETfireNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 gotadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 gotadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 firedet
5firefireNOUNNumber=Sing3 gotobj
6wellwellADVDegree=Pos7 startedadvmod
7startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 fireacl:relcl
8,,PUNCT_3 gotpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 gotnsubj
10gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 stickdet
12stickstickNOUNNumber=Sing10 gotobj
13andandCCONJ_14 sharpenedcc
14sharpenedsharpenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 gotconj
15itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 pointnmod:poss
16pointpointNOUNNumber=Sing14 sharpenedobj
17;;PUNCT_22 loosenedpunct
18thenthenADVPronType=Dem22 loosenedadvmod
19withwithADP_20 thiscase
20thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 loosenedobl
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 loosenednsubj
22loosenedloosenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 gotconj
23upupADP_22 loosenedcompound:prt
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 grounddet
25groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing22 loosenedobj
26allallADV_27 aroundadvmod
27aroundaroundADV_22 loosenedadvmod
28andandCCONJ_31 firecc
29underunderADP_31 firecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 firedet
31firefireNOUNNumber=Sing27 aroundconj
32..PUNCT_10 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastdjakthe firevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
2startpastthe fire not said herewell propertyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3getpastdjaka stickvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus
4sharpenpastdjak not said herefire's pointvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent point=Patient
5loosen uppastdjakthe groundthenwith this; around propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with this=Instrument
6pointfirenom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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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