Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 25

Nenebuc picked up a club and killed her, saying, “You are no doctor (macki·ki·′winini‵k·we ‘medicine-person woman’) at all.”

Who acts: Nenebuc, You, we · What happens: pick up, kill, say, be, woman · To what, where: club, all, queen, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nenebuc, You, we), 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	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 killed	cc
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 picked	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 doctor	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 doctor	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 doctor	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doctor	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 doctor	det
16	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 macki	punct
18	macki	macki	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 doctor	conj
19	·	·	PUNCT	_	20 ki	punct
20	ki	ki	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 macki	conj
21	·	·	PUNCT	_	22 ′	punct
22	′	′	X	Foreign=Yes	18 macki	conj
23	winini	winini	X	Foreign=Yes	22 ′	flat:foreign
24	‵	‵	PUNCT	_	25 k	punct
25	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 macki	conj
26	·	·	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 woman	nsubj
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
29	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 person	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 medicine	punct
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woman	compound
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	parataxis
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 picked	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	Nenebuc	a club	all		tree rules
2	kill	past	Nenebuc not said here	queen			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Nenebuc not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	You	no doctor and macki and ki and k		macki and ki and k conj	tree rules
5	woman in a quote		we				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, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 25