Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 123

When the dance began, everybody began drinking some of the strong herb liquor and it went to their heads and made them feel good, and dizzy.

Who acts: dance, everybody, nostrils · What happens: begin, drink, go, make, feel · To what, where: some, heads, nostrils

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 (dance, everybody, nostrils), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dance	det
3	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 drinking	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 liquor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 liquor	det
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 liquor	amod
13	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 liquor	compound
14	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 some	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 heads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	xcomp
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dizzy	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dizzy	cc
28	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 began	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the dance				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	begin	past	everybody				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	gerund	everybody not said here	some of the strong herb liquor			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	go	past	dance		nostrils's heads		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to head=Initial_Location
5	make	past	everybody not said here	nostrils = nostril			tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	nostrils = nostril not said here			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 123