Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 3

She covered herself with the skin of an owl when she wanted to fly at night for the purpose of taking the first joints off the fingers of children, which she used to string up like old-fashioned, dried apples in her camp.

Who acts: witch, purpose · What happens: cover, want, fly, take, use up, dry · To what, where: witch, first joints, fingers

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, purpose), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 covered	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 owl	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 owl	det
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 wanted	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fly	mark
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 purpose	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 purpose	det
19	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 taking	mark
21	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 purpose	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 joints	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 joints	amod
24	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taking	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	27 fingers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fingers	det
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taking	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 children	case
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fingers	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 used	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 used	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 used	nsubj
33	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fingers	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 string	mark
35	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	advcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	33 used	compound:prt
37	like	like	ADP	_	43 apples	case
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fashioned	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 old	punct
40	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 apples	amod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fashioned	punct
42	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 apples	amod
43	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 used	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 camp	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 camp	nmod:poss
46	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 apples	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	witch	witch			with the skin of a owl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination with skin=Theme
2	want	past	witch					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	witch not said here			night	for the purpose	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	gerund	the purpose not said here	the first joints	the fingers of children			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent joint=Theme off finger=Initial_Location
5	use up	past	witch	the fingers of children			like fashioned dried apples in witch's camp; string advcl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 3

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Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 3