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title: Now these old women had a sharp pointed bone at each elbow. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now these old women had a sharp pointed bone at each elbow. Who acts: old 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 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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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 76

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Now these old women had a sharp pointed bone at each elbow.

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**Who acts:** old women · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** sharp pointed bone, elbow

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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), 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:pg66509:16:76
# text = Now these old women had a sharp pointed bone at each elbow.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | a sharp pointed bone |  | each elbow | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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