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title: They skinned and cooked the beaver for lunch; then Ciŋgibis and his… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They skinned and cooked the beaver for lunch; then Ciŋgibis and his two wives continued their journey. Who acts: girls, Ciŋgibis. 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 4, with its depe
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 115

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They skinned and cooked the beaver for lunch; then Ciŋgibis and his two wives continued their journey.

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**Who acts:** girls, Ciŋgibis · **What happens:** skin, cook, continue, journey · **To what, where:** beaver, journey

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, Ciŋgibis), 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:pg66509:14:115
# text = They skinned and cooked the beaver for lunch; then Ciŋgibis and his two wives continued their journey.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skinned	skin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
11	Ciŋgibis	Ciŋgibis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skin** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cook** | past | girls *= girl* *not said here* | the beaver |  |  |  | for lunch | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beaver=Product for lunch=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **continue** | past | Ciŋgibis and Ciŋgibis's two wives | girls's journey |  |  | then |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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