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title: The tips of the wings of birds that are killed for food are preserve… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tips of the wings of birds that are killed for food are preserved about the camp for good luck, or, as they say, “to ask for more luck.” Who acts: tips. 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 47

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The tips of the wings of birds that are killed for food are preserved about the camp for good luck, or, as they say, “to ask for more luck.”

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**Who acts:** tips · **What happens:** kill, preserve, say, ask · **To what, where:** birds, tips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tips), 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:pg66509:10:47
# text = The tips of the wings of birds that are killed for food are preserved about the camp for good luck, or, as they say, “to ask for more luck.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · passive |  | birds |  |  |  | for food | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | the tips of the wings of birds |  |  |  | about the camp; for good luck | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | tips *= tip* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | tips *= tip* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for more luck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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