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description: Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the 
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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 25

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Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** tell, put, leave, look · **To what, where:** father, wooden dish upside, fire, upside · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl), 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:pg66509:11:25
# text = Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  | father |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | father's wooden dish upside |  | the fire |  | down *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upside=Theme before fire=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | upside |  | there | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | under upside | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=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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