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title: He made a fire with his bow-drill [14] and put his geese in the sand… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He made a fire with his bow-drill [14] and put his geese in the sand, which he had heated to bake them in. Who acts: Suum. 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 
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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 86

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He made a fire with his bow-drill \[14\] and put his geese in the sand, which he had heated to bake them in.

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**Who acts:** Suum · **What happens:** make, put, heat, bake in · **To what, where:** fire, geese, sand, kinds

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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 (Suum), 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:pg66509:11:86
# text = He made a fire with his bow-drill [14] and put his geese in the sand, which he had heated to bake them in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Suum | a fire |  |  |  | with Suum's bow drill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Suum *not said here* | Suum's geese |  | the sand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goose=Theme in sand=Destination |
| 3 | **heat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sand |  |  |  | Suum *nsubj* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bake in** | to-infinitive |  | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |

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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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