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title: To kill blue-bottle flies will bring rain. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: To kill blue-bottle flies will bring rain. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore., 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, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 28

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To kill blue-bottle flies will bring rain.

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**What happens:** kill, bring · **To what, where:** bottle flies, rain

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66509:19:28
# text = To kill blue-bottle flies will bring rain.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | bottle flies |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | future |  | rain |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |

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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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