--- title: With this pointed bone they began stabbing the fur coat in their has… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66509:16:77 # text = 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. 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 pointed pointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 stabbing stab VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 Ayas Ayas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 · · PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 to to SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 stabbing stab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 31 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 30 obj _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 stabbing stab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 40 Ayas Aya PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 · · PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 e. E. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 45 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 44 obj _ _ 46 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. 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