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description: After the feast the oldest and most venerable man in the camp is presented with the head and the attached breast fat, which he may either take home or distribute over again to the company. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 79

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After the feast the oldest and most venerable man in the camp is presented with the head and the attached breast fat, which he may either take home or distribute over again to the company.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** present, attach, take, distribute · **To what, where:** oldest man, attached breast fat, company

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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 (man), 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:pg66509:10:79
# text = After the feast the oldest and most venerable man in the camp is presented with the head and the attached breast fat, which he may either take home or distribute over again to the company.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	distribute	distribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | present · passive |  | the oldest man in the camp |  |  | after the feast | with the head and the attached breast fat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with head=Theme |
| 2 | **attach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | may | man | the attached breast fat |  |  |  | either, home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **distribute** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  | the company |  | again |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to company=Recipient |

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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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