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title: In a short time her body was full of bees, eating her up, and she be… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 16

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76755:12:16
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	twist	twist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Youh	youh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	youh	youh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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