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title: Then he began rattling and singing, and, as he did so, he shoved the… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Tima
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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 47

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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.

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc, arrow · **What happens:** begin, rattle, sing, do, shove, point · **To what, where:** wound, arrow, queen

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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, arrow), 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:pg66509:12:47
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shoved	shove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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