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title: Now, one time, when he gave one of his feasts, Beaver cut his grease… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, one time, when he gave one of his feasts, Beaver cut his grease supply into cakes which he served around to his guests. Who acts: chief, Beaver, cakes. 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 4, sentence 198

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Now, one time, when he gave one of his feasts, Beaver cut his grease supply into cakes which he served around to his guests.

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**Who acts:** chief, Beaver, cakes · **What happens:** give, cut, serve around · **To what, where:** one, grease supply, cakes, guests

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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 (chief, Beaver, cakes), 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:pg66509:14:198
# text = Now, one time, when he gave one of his feasts, Beaver cut his grease supply into cakes which he served around to his guests.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | chief | one of chief's feasts |  |  | now; time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Beaver | chief's grease supply |  | cakes |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent supply=Material into cake=Product |
| 3 | **serve around** | past | cakes |  | chief's guests |  |  | chief *nsubj*; around *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to guest=Recipient |

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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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