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description: Now these old women had some grease in a bark dish and one of them put some of the grease in a cooking pail. Who acts: old women, one. 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 6, with its
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 64

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Now these old women had some grease in a bark dish and one of them put some of the grease in a cooking pail.

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**Who acts:** old women, one · **What happens:** have, put · **To what, where:** grease, bark dish, some, cooking pail

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old women, one), 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:pg66509:16:64
# text = Now these old women had some grease in a bark dish and one of them put some of the grease in a cooking pail.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this old women | some grease |  | a bark dish | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past | one of women | some of the grease |  | a cooking pail |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme in pail=Destination |

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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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