Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 47
Then he began rattling and singing, and, as he did so, he shoved the arrow point farther into the wound of the queen in order to kill her.
Who acts: Nenebuc, arrow · What happens: begin, rattle, sing, do, shove, point · To what, where: wound, arrow, queen
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, arrow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rattling | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 singing | cc |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rattling | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shoved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shoved | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shoved | advcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shoved | nsubj |
| 16 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arrow | det |
| 18 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 point | nsubj |
| 19 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 shoved | ccomp |
| 20 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 point | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 wound | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wound | det |
| 23 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 point | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 queen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wound | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 queen | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 kill | mark |
| 30 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 order | acl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kill | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Nenebuc | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rattle | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Nenebuc | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shove | past | Nenebuc | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | point | present | the arrow | the wound of the queen in order | far property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into wound=Recipient | |||
| 7 | kill | to-infinitive | the arrow not said here | arrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | wound | the queen in order | nom wound «state transitive»: of=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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