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title: Some time after this, Tcaka·bįs went back again to the giant women a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after this, Tcaka·bįs went back again to the giant women and found them pounding up and boiling moose bones to make soup. Who acts: Tcaka bįs, bįs. 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 Oj
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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 46

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Some time after this, Tcaka·bįs went back again to the giant women and found them pounding up and boiling moose bones to make soup.

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**Who acts:** Tcaka bįs, bįs · **What happens:** go back, find, pound up, boil, make · **To what, where:** bįs, moose bones, soup

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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 (Tcaka bįs, bįs), 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:pg66509:15:46
# text = Some time after this, Tcaka·bįs went back again to the giant women and found them pounding up and boiling moose bones to make soup.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Tcaka	Tcaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bįs	bį	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	pounding	pound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
23	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Tcaka bįs |  |  |  | again; time | to the giant women *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result |
| 2 | **find** | past | Tcaka bįs *not said here* | bįs *= bį* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pound up** | gerund | bįs *= bį* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **boil** | gerund | bįs *= bį* *not said here* | moose bones |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | bįs *= bį* *not said here* | soup |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product |

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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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