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title: When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping to… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping together, swayed by the wind. Who acts: d, two trees. 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 tre
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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 140

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When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping together, swayed by the wind.

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**Who acts:** d, two trees · **What happens:** be, spread, hear, scrape together, sway · **To what, where:** meat, two trees

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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 (d, two trees), 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:pg66509:11:140
# text = When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping together, swayed by the wind.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	swayed	sway	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | d |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive | d *not said here* | d's meat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | d | two trees |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **scrape together** | gerund | two trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sway** | participle | d *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the wind | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location |

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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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