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title: When the feast is about half through, the chief gets up and decorate… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the feast is about half through, the chief gets up and decorates the bear’s head with bright coloured ribbons about six inches long attached to little cedar sticks about four inches long, with their ends split to hold the ribbons. Who acts: feast, chief, head, ends. A sentence of «Myths and Fol
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 74

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When the feast is about half through, the chief gets up and decorates the bear’s head with bright coloured ribbons about six inches long attached to little cedar sticks about four inches long, with their ends split to hold the ribbons.

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**Who acts:** feast, chief, head, ends · **What happens:** be, get up, decorate, attach, stick, split · **To what, where:** bright coloured ribbons, ribbons

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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 (feast, chief, head, ends), 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:pg66509:10:74
# text = When the feast is about half through, the chief gets up and decorates the bear’s head with bright coloured ribbons about six inches long attached to little cedar sticks about four inches long, with their ends split to hold the ribbons.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	decorates	decorate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
27	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the feast |  |  |  |  | about, half, through *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get up** | present | the chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **decorate** | present | the chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attach** | participle |  | bright coloured ribbons *not said here* |  |  |  | to little cedar | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cedar=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **stick** | present | the bear's head with bright coloured ribbons |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **split** | past | guests's ends |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold** | to-infinitive | guests's ends *not said here* | the ribbons |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Theme |

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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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