Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 39

One time he dressed himself like a woman, with skirts, and tried to deceive a young man, so that he thought Wiske·djak was his wife.

Who acts: Wiske, Wiske djak · What happens: dress, try, deceive, think, be · To what, where: Wiske, young man, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wiske, Wiske 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 time	nummod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dressed	nsubj
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 dressed	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 woman	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skirts	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 skirts	case
11	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 woman	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 deceive	mark
16	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deceive	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 thought	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tried	conj
25	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 djak	compound
26	·	·	PUNCT	_	25 Wiske	punct
27	djak	djak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wife	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wife	cop
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Wiske	Wiske	time	like a woman and skirts	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	try	past	Wiske not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wiske not said here	a young man			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	Wiske				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Wiske djak	Wiske's wife		Wiske nmod:poss	tree rules

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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 39