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title: Nenebuc picked up a club and killed her, saying, “You are no doctor… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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.
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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

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

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:12:25
# text = Nenebuc picked up a club and killed her, saying, “You are no doctor (macki·ki·′winini‵k·we ‘medicine-person woman’) at all.”
1	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	macki	macki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	winini	winini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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