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title: To foretell what kind of animals will be killed the next day by men… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: To foretell what kind of animals will be killed the next day by men just before going hunting, a partridge breast bone is burnt or scorched before the fire. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with its depend
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 44

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To foretell what kind of animals will be killed the next day by men just before going hunting, a partridge breast bone is burnt or scorched before the fire.

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**What happens:** foretell, kill, go, burnt, scorch · **To what, where:** kind, hunting, breast bone

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66509:10:44
# text = To foretell what kind of animals will be killed the next day by men just before going hunting, a partridge breast bone is burnt or scorched before the fire.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	foretell	foretell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foretell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | by men | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | future · passive |  | what kind of animals |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  | hunting |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
| 4 | **burnt** | present · passive |  | a breast bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **scorch** | participle |  |  |  |  | before the fire |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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