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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 5

He decided to make a big dance among the birds in the autumn and to invite all the ducks and geese to come, so that he could kill them.

Who acts: djak, ducks · What happens: decide, make, invite, come, kill · To what, where: big dance, ducks

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, ducks), 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

nsubjmarkxcompdetamodobjcasedetoblcasedetoblccmarkconjdet:predetdetobjccconjmarkxcomppunctmarkfixednsubjauxconjobjpunctrootHePRONdecidedVERBtoPARTmakeVERBaDETbigADJdanceNOUNamongADPtheDETbirdsNOUNinADPtheDETautumnNOUNandCCONJtoPARTinviteVERBallDETtheDETducksNOUNandCCONJgeeseNOUNtoPARTcomeVERB,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXkillVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 decidednsubj
2decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_4 makemark
4makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 decidedxcomp
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 dancedet
6bigbigADJDegree=Pos7 danceamod
7dancedanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 makeobj
8amongamongADP_10 birdscase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 birdsdet
10birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur4 makeobl
11ininADP_13 autumncase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 autumndet
13autumnautumnNOUNNumber=Sing4 makeobl
14andandCCONJ_16 invitecc
15totoPART_16 invitemark
16inviteinviteVERBVerbForm=Inf4 makeconj
17allallDETPronType=Tot19 ducksdet:predet
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 ducksdet
19ducksduckNOUNNumber=Plur16 inviteobj
20andandCCONJ_21 geesecc
21geesegooseNOUNNumber=Plur19 ducksconj
22totoPART_23 comemark
23comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf16 invitexcomp
24,,PUNCT_29 killpunct
25sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ29 killmark
26thatthatSCONJ_25 sofixed
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 killnsubj
28couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin29 killaux
29killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf16 inviteconj
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 killobj
31..PUNCT_2 decidedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1decidepastdjakvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2make not said to happento-infinitivedjak not said herea big danceautumnamong the birdsvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product
3inviteto-infinitivedjak not said hereall ducks and geesevn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient clause=Topic
4come not said to happento-infinitiveall ducks and geese not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5killcoulddjakDucks = duckvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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