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title: The shape of the scorched portion suggests, by a vague resemblance,… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The shape of the scorched portion suggests, by a vague resemblance, the form of some animal. Who acts: shape. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 45

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The shape of the scorched portion suggests, by a vague resemblance, the form of some animal.

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**Who acts:** shape · **What happens:** scorch, suggest, form · **To what, where:** vague resemblance, animal

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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: who acts (shape), 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:pg66509:10:45
# text = The shape of the scorched portion suggests, by a vague resemblance, the form of some animal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | the shape of the scorched portion | a vague resemblance |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent resemblance=Topic |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | some animal |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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