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description: Nenebuc turned around upon hearing this and super totam familiam defaecavit. Who acts: Nenebuc. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 123

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Nenebuc turned around upon hearing this and super totam familiam defaecavit.

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc · **What happens:** turn around, hear · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nenebuc), 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:pg66509:11:123
# text = Nenebuc turned around upon hearing this and super totam familiam defaecavit.
1	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	super	super	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	totam	totam	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	familiam	familiam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	defaecavit	defaecavit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn around** | past | Nenebuc |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | Nenebuc *not said here* | this |  |  |  | totam familiam defaecavit *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |

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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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