Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 3

ogi·′jini‵gwuna‵dji·an wi·′djini‵cəna′binʻ i′yanotc mɔ·′jαk doing what he could teasing his countrymen Indians.

Who acts: i, ′ jαk, binʻ · What happens: ′, do, tease · To what, where: binʻ, Indians, yanotc mɔ

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (i, ′ jαk, binʻ), 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	ogi	ogi	X	Foreign=Yes	22 mɔ	nsubj
2	·	·	PUNCT	_	3 ′	punct
3	′	′	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
4	jini	jini	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
5	‵	‵	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
6	gwuna	gwuna	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
7	‵	‵	PUNCT	_	8 dji	punct
8	dji	dji	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ogi	appos
9	·	·	PUNCT	_	8 dji	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wi	det
11	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ogi	nmod:unmarked
12	·	·	PUNCT	_	13 ′	punct
13	′	′	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	conj
14	djini	djini	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
15	‵	‵	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
16	cəna	cəna	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ogi	flat:foreign
17	′	′	PUNCT	_	18 binʻ	punct
18	binʻ	binʻ	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mɔ	nsubj
19	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ′	nsubj
20	′	′	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 binʻ	acl:relcl
21	yanotc	yanotc	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mɔ	amod
22	mɔ	mɔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	·	·	PUNCT	_	25 jαk	punct
24	′	′	X	_	25 jαk	compound
25	jαk	jαk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mɔ	appos
26	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 jαk	acl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 teasing	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 teasing	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 teasing	aux
30	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 doing	ccomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 countrymen	nmod:poss
32	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Indians	nsubj
33	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 teasing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 mɔ	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	′	present	i	binʻ not said here		tree rules
2	do	gerund	′ jαk not said here			tree rules
3	tease	could	binʻ	Indians binʻ's countrymen	what obj	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 3