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description: He then spilled the caribou grease in his water hole in order to deceive Skunk and make him believe that he had a great quantity of meat. Who acts: Wemicus. 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 Oji
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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 89

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He then spilled the caribou grease in his water hole in order to deceive Skunk and make him believe that he had a great quantity of meat.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** spill, deceive, make, believe, have · **To what, where:** caribou grease, water hole, Skunk, Wemicus, great quantity · **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 (Wemicus), 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:pg66509:13:89
# text = He then spilled the caribou grease in his water hole in order to deceive Skunk and make him believe that he had a great quantity of meat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	caribou	caribou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	Skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** | past | Wemicus | the caribou grease |  | Wemicus's water hole in order | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grease=Theme |
| 2 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | Skunk |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | Wemicus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | past | Wemicus | a great quantity of meat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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