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description: In the body of a fish are various bones which the Indians liken to different utensils and tools in the hunter’s outfit. Who acts: Indians. 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 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 56

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In the body of a fish are various bones which the Indians liken to different utensils and tools in the hunter’s outfit.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** be, liken · **To what, where:** various bones, body, outfit

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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 (Indians), 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:pg66509:10:56
# text = In the body of a fish are various bones which the Indians liken to different utensils and tools in the hunter’s outfit.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	liken	liken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	utensils	utensil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	outfit	outfit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | various bones |  | the body of a fish |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **liken** | present | the Indians | various bones |  | the hunter's outfit |  | to different utensils and tools | tree rules |

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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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