Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 77
With this pointed bone they began stabbing the fur coat in their haste to kill Ayas·e, and pretty soon in their blind fury they fell to stabbing each other, each one thinking she was stabbing Ayas·e. They killed each other.
Who acts: women, one, Ayas · What happens: begin, stab, kill, fall, think, infuriate · To what, where: fur coat, haste, Ayas, blind fury, each
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, one, Ayas), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 bone | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bone | det |
| 3 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bone | amod |
| 4 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stabbing | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 began | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coat | det |
| 9 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coat | compound |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stabbing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 haste | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 haste | nmod:poss |
| 13 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stabbing | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stabbing | advcl |
| 16 | Ayas | Ayas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 18 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ayas | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 fell | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 fury | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fury | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fury | amod |
| 26 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 30 stabbing | mark |
| 30 | stabbing | stab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 thinking | advcl |
| 31 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 30 stabbing | obj |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 each | fixed |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stabbing | punct |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thinking | nsubj |
| 36 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fell | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stabbing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 stabbing | aux |
| 39 | stabbing | stab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 thinking | conj |
| 40 | Ayas | Aya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 stabbing | obj |
| 41 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 42 e. | punct |
| 42 | e. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 stabbing | obl |
| 43 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 killed | nsubj |
| 44 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 stabbing | parataxis |
| 45 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 44 killed | obj |
| 46 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 each | fixed |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | women = woman | with this pointed bone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stab | gerund | women = woman not said here | the fur coat | women's haste | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Patient in haste=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | women = woman not said here | Ayas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ayas=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | women = woman | women's blind fury | soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | |||
| 5 | stab | gerund | each one not said here | each | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | gerund | each one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | stab | past · progressive | Ayas | Ayas | e. obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aya=Patient | |||
| 8 | kill | past | women = woman | each | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 9 | infuriate | women = woman | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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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