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title: At last, when the giant women needed grease, they dipped up Tcaka·bį… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, when the giant women needed grease, they dipped up Tcaka·bįs with a wooden spoon and threw him outside. Who acts: giant women, women. 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, 
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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 49

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At last, when the giant women needed grease, they dipped up Tcaka·bįs with a wooden spoon and threw him outside.

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**Who acts:** giant women, women · **What happens:** need, dip up, throw · **To what, where:** grease, Tcaka bįs, last, man

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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 (giant women, women), 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:pg66509:15:49
# text = At last, when the giant women needed grease, they dipped up Tcaka·bįs with a wooden spoon and threw him outside.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	Tcaka	Tcaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bįs	bį	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | the giant women | grease |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grease=Theme |
| 2 | **dip up** | past | women *= woman* | Tcaka bįs |  | last |  | with a wooden spoon | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bį=Theme at last=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw** | past | women *= woman* *not said here* | man |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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