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description: He brought in two nice beavers which belonged to him, and gave one to the girls, saying, “You can have this.” Who acts: Woodpecker, two nice beavers, You. 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 Ojibw
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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 72

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He brought in two nice beavers which belonged to him, and gave one to the girls, saying, “You can have this.”

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**Who acts:** Woodpecker, two nice beavers, You · **What happens:** bring, belong, give, say, have · **To what, where:** Woodpecker, one, girls, this · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodpecker, two nice beavers, You), 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:pg66509:14:72
# text = He brought in two nice beavers which belonged to him, and gave one to the girls, saying, “You can have this.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Woodpecker |  |  |  |  | in two nice beavers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | past | two nice beavers |  | Woodpecker |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Woodpecker *not said here* | one | the girls |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to girl=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Woodpecker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | can | You | this |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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