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description: “If they throw these parts of the animals away, they won’t be able to find what creatures they may look for afterward.” Who acts: skulls. 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 p
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 49

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“If they throw these parts of the animals away, they won’t be able to find what creatures they may look for afterward.”

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**Who acts:** skulls · **What happens:** throw, not be, find, look · **To what, where:** parts, creatures

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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 (skulls), 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:pg66509:10:49
# text = “If they throw these parts of the animals away, they won’t be able to find what creatures they may look for afterward.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	what	what	DET	WP	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | skulls *= skull* | this parts of the animals |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | skulls *= skull* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | skulls *= skull* *not said here* | what creatures |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | may | skulls *= skull* | what creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=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:** «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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