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title: The Beaver cut a piece that size and sent it to the Otter; that is a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Beaver cut a piece that size and sent it to the Otter; that is all the Otter got. Who acts: Beaver, that. 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 5, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 16

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The Beaver cut a piece that size and sent it to the Otter; that is all the Otter got.

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**Who acts:** Beaver, that · **What happens:** cut, send, be · **To what, where:** piece, Otter

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beaver, that), 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:pg66509:15:16
# text = The Beaver cut a piece that size and sent it to the Otter; that is all the Otter got.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	det	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | the Beaver | a piece  that size |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product |
| 2 | **send** | past | the Beaver *not said here* | piece | the Otter |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to otter=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | the Otter *nsubj*; get *property* | tree rules |

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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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