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title: He killed a moose and took its intestine end [described like an appe… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He killed a moose and took its intestine end [described like an appendix], secuit penem in fragmenta, mixed these with fat, and made a smoked sausage out of the whole. Who acts: Tunc, secuit penem. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 173

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He killed a moose and took its intestine end \[described like an appendix\], secuit penem in fragmenta, mixed these with fat, and made a smoked sausage out of the whole.

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**Who acts:** Tunc, secuit penem · **What happens:** kill, take, describe, mix, make, smoke · **To what, where:** moose, intestine end, these, smoked sausage, whole

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tunc, secuit penem), 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:pg66509:17:173
# text = He killed a moose and took its intestine end [described like an appendix], secuit penem in fragmenta, mixed these with fat, and made a smoked sausage out of the whole.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	intestine	intestine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	appendix	appendix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	secuit	secuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	penem	penem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fragmenta	fragmenta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Tunc | a moose |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moose=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | Tunc *not said here* | moose's intestine end |  |  |  | secuit penem in fragmenta *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 3 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a appendix | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mix** | participle | secuit penem in fragmenta *not said here* | these |  |  |  | with fat | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with fat=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | Tunc *not said here* | a smoked sausage |  | the whole |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sausage=Product |
| 6 | **smoke** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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