---
title: Every once in a while he would give a big feast, build a big wigwam,… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every once in a while he would give a big feast, build a big wigwam, and invite all the men and women to come in and eat with him. Who acts: chief, men. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/194/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Oj…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/) / 194

# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 194

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every once in a while he would give a big feast, build a big wigwam, and invite all the men and women to come in and eat with him.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** chief, men · **What happens:** give, build, invite, come in, eat · **To what, where:** big feast, big wigwam, men

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:14:194
# text = Every once in a while he would give a big feast, build a big wigwam, and invite all the men and women to come in and eat with him.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | chief | a big feast |  |  |  | once *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | infinitive | chief *not said here* | a big wigwam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wigwam=Product |
| 3 | **invite** | infinitive | chief *not said here* | all men and women |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive | all men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with chief | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/193/)
- next →: [sentence 195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/195/)
- ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/)