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title: The method of cooking squirrels (dji·′tɔ′mǫ) has an influence upon t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The method of cooking squirrels (dji·′tɔ′mǫ) has an influence upon the weather forces. Who acts: method. 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 39

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The method of cooking squirrels (dji·′tɔ′mǫ) has an influence upon the weather forces.

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**Who acts:** method · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** influence

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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: who acts (method), 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:pg66509:19:39
# text = The method of cooking squirrels (dji·′tɔ′mǫ) has an influence upon the weather forces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	dji	dji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	′	′	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tɔ	tɔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mǫ	mǫ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the method of cooking squirrels and dji | a influence |  |  |  | upon the weather forces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=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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