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title: The Ojibwa attributed nearly all pictographs to the Iroquois. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibwa attributed nearly all pictographs to the Iroquois. Who acts: Ojibwa. 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 8, 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 8, sentence 49

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The Ojibwa attributed nearly all pictographs to the Iroquois.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa · **What happens:** attribute · **To what, where:** pictographs

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwa), 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:pg66509:18:49
# text = The Ojibwa attributed nearly all pictographs to the Iroquois.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	pictographs	pictograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | past | the Ojibwa | all pictographs |  |  |  | to the Iroquois | tree rules |

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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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