Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 112

Ciŋgəbis was very jealous of his wife and had his camp apart from the others, lest some man might take a fancy to his wife and take her away.

Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, man · What happens: be, have, take, take away · To what, where: camp, others, fancy, wife

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 (Ciŋgəbis, man), 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	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 camp	nmod:poss
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 others	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	21 take	mark
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fancy	det
23	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 take	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ciŋgəbis				of Ciŋgəbis's wife; jealous property	tree rules
2	have	past	Ciŋgəbis not said here	Ciŋgəbis's camp		the others	apart property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient
3	take	might	some man	a fancy	Ciŋgəbis's wife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to wife=Destination
4	take away	infinitive	some man not said here	wife			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 112