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title: The man’s wife warned her husband of these snakes and gave him a spl… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The man’s wife warned her husband of these snakes and gave him a split stick holding a certain kind of magic tobacco, which she told him to hold in front of him so that the snakes would not hurt him. Who acts: wife, split stick, magic tobacco, snakes. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timisk
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 124

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The man’s wife warned her husband of these snakes and gave him a split stick holding a certain kind of magic tobacco, which she told him to hold in front of him so that the snakes would not hurt him.

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**Who acts:** wife, split stick, magic tobacco, snakes · **What happens:** warn, give, hold, tell, not hurt · **To what, where:** husband, split stick, Wemicus, certain kind, magic tobacco, front · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, split stick, magic tobacco, snakes), 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:pg66509:13:124
# text = The man’s wife warned her husband of these snakes and gave him a split stick holding a certain kind of magic tobacco, which she told him to hold in front of him so that the snakes would not hurt him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	split	split	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | the man's wife |  | wife's husband of this snakes |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | past | the man's wife *not said here* | a split stick | Wemicus |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stick=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | a split stick *not said here* | a certain kind of magic tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | wife | magic tobacco | Wemicus |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | magic tobacco *not said here* |  |  | front of Wemicus |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 6 | **not** **hurt** | would | the snakes | Wemicus |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |

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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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