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title: It belongs to the variously expressed series of bear rites widesprea… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: It belongs to the variously expressed series of bear rites widespread among the northern tribes. Who acts: comment, series rites. 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 pragmatic
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 86

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It belongs to the variously expressed series of bear rites widespread among the northern tribes.

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**Who acts:** comment, series rites · **What happens:** belong, express, widespread

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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 (comment, series rites), 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:pg66509:10:86
# text = It belongs to the variously expressed series of bear rites widespread among the northern tribes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	variously	variously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	widespread	widespread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | comment |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **express** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | variously *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **widespread** | present | series rites |  |  |  |  | among the northern tribes | 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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