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title: Then Skunk gave Wemicus three shots to be used in the future, and he… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Skunk gave Wemicus three shots to be used in the future, and he did this urinando super eum to load him up three times. Who acts: Skunk. 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, w
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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 74

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Then Skunk gave Wemicus three shots to be used in the future, and he did this urinando super eum to load him up three times.

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**Who acts:** Skunk · **What happens:** give, use, do, load up · **To what, where:** three shots, Wemicus, future, urinando, Skunk

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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 (Skunk), 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:pg66509:13:74
# text = Then Skunk gave Wemicus three shots to be used in the future, and he did this urinando super eum to load him up three times.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Skunk	Skunk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	shots	shot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	urinando	urinando	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	super	super	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	eum	eum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	load	load	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Skunk | three shots | Wemicus |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wemicus=Recipient shot=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive · passive | Skunk *not said here* |  |  | the future |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **do** | past | Skunk | this urinando |  |  |  | eum *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **load up** | to-infinitive | Skunk *not said here* |  | Skunk |  | time |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |

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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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