Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 119

They prepared a kind of drink out of boiled bark and herbs with tobacco juice in it, that would make people dizzy when they drank it.

Who acts: nostrils, that · What happens: prepare, boil, make, drink · To what, where: kind, boiled bark, people

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 (nostrils, that), 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 prepared	nsubj
2	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prepared	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 drink	case
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 bark	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bark	case
9	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bark	amod
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prepared	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 herbs	cc
12	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bark	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 juice	case
14	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 juice	compound
15	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 herbs	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 juice	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 make	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 prepared	parataxis
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
23	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	xcomp
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 drank	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drank	nsubj
26	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 make	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drank	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	nostrils = nostril	a kind of drink	boiled bark and herbs with tobacco juice in juice		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	boil	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	would	that	people		dizzy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
4	drink	past	nostrils = nostril	kind			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 119

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 119