Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 16

In a short time her body was full of bees, eating her up, and she began to twist around and say: “Youh, youh,” and died in the canoe.

Who acts: body, woman · What happens: be, eat up, begin, twist around, say, die · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, woman), 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	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bees	case
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eating	punct
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 full	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eating	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 eating	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 twist	mark
20	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	around	around	ADV	_	20 twist	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 twist	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
26	Youh	youh	INTJ	_	28 youh	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 youh	punct
28	youh	youh	INTJ	_	32 died	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 youh	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 youh	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 died	cc
32	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 canoe	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 canoe	det
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman's body		time	of bees; full property	tree rules
2	eat up	gerund	woman's body not said here	woman			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	begin	past	woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	twist around	to-infinitive	woman not said here			around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	die	past	woman's body not said here			in the canoe	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in canoe=Attribute

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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 16