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title: (h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and G… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: (h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and Gull Partly Black, then Retires to the West, until He Will Return Again. Who acts: h Nenebuc Sends, Disobedience. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 78

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(h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and Gull Partly Black, then Retires to the West, until He Will Return Again.

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**Who acts:** h Nenebuc Sends, Disobedience · **What happens:** crow out, change, retire, return · **To what, where:** Him

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (h Nenebuc Sends, Disobedience), 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:pg66509:12:78
# text = (h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and Gull Partly Black, then Retires to the West, until He Will Return Again.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Sends	send	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Crow	crow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Disobedience	Disobedience	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	Him	Him	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Partly	Partly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	Retires	retire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crow out** | present | h Nenebuc Sends |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | present | Disobedience | Him and Gull Partly |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent him=Patient |
| 3 | **retire** | present |  |  |  |  | then | to the West | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | future | Disobedience |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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