Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 61

In the meantime he hunted around and got two big stones, and while the Bear was blinded with the pain, began pounding him on the head with the stones.

Who acts: djak · What happens: hunt around, get, blind, begin, pound · To what, where: meantime, two big stones, Bear, djak, head

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunted	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hunted	nsubj
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 hunted	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunted	conj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 stones	nummod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stones	amod
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 blinded	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bear	det
16	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 blinded	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blinded	aux:pass
18	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 began	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 pain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pain	det
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blinded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blinded	punct
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunted	parataxis
24	pounding	pound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 began	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pounding	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pounding	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 stones	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stones	det
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pounding	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt around	past	djak		the meantime	around property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location
2	get	past	djak not said here	two big stones			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
3	blind	past · passive		the Bear		with the pain	tree rules
4	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	pound	gerund		djak	the head	with the stones	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme on head=Trajectory

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, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 61

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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 61