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title: “Me′ma­towes‵iŋg” (“noise of chopping”). — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Me′ma­towes‵iŋg” (“noise of chopping”). Who acts: chopping. 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, 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 7, sentence 61

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“Me′ma­towes‵iŋg” (“noise of chopping”).

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**Who acts:** chopping · **What happens:** noise

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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 (chopping), 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:pg66509:17:61
# text = “Me′ma­towes‵iŋg” (“noise of chopping”).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	­	­	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	towes	towe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	iŋg	iŋg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	chopping	chopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **noise** *in a quote* |  | chopping |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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