Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 104
They got angry and began to conjure to bring sickness upon his new wife and her family.
Who acts: rushes · What happens: get, begin, conjure, bring · To what, where: sickness
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rushes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 conjure | mark |
| 7 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 conjure | xcomp |
| 10 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 family | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | rushes = rush | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | rushes = rush not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | conjure | to-infinitive | rushes = rush not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | rushes = rush not said here | sickness | upon Wiske's new wife and wife's family | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sickness=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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