Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 52
Then he put on more fire to roast them well in the hot sand.
Who acts: djak · What happens: put, roast · To what, where: more fire, feet
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), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fire | amod |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 roast | mark |
| 8 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 roast | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 roast | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sand | amod |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roast | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | djak | more fire | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | roast | to-infinitive | djak not said here | feet = foot | in the hot sand; well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in sand=Instrument |
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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