Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 6

He had the power to make everything in creation answer him when he spoke to it; trees, water, animals, and all the other little creatures would reply to him when he spoke.

Who acts: djak, other little creatures · What happens: have, make, answer, speak, reply · To what, where: power, everything, djak, creation, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak, other little creatures), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 power	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 make	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 creation	case
9	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answer	obl
10	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answer	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 spoke	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 trees	punct
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spoke	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 water	punct
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 animals	punct
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trees	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reply	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reply	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 creatures	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creatures	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 creatures	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 creatures	amod
29	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 reply	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 reply	aux
31	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answer	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reply	obl
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 spoke	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spoke	nsubj
36	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reply	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	djak	the power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	djak not said here	everything			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product
3	answer speech: assert	present	djak not said here		djak	creation	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	past	djak	trees and water and animals	creation		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
5	reply speech: assert	would	all other little creatures		djak		vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
6	speak speech: other	past	djak				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, Free Translation., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 6