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title: Squirrels are usually cooked by splitting the carcass, after it has… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Squirrels are usually cooked by splitting the carcass, after it has been skinned, and roasting it in the flames until done. Who acts: roasting. 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 th
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 40

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Squirrels are usually cooked by splitting the carcass, after it has been skinned, and roasting it in the flames until done.

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**Who acts:** roasting · **What happens:** cook, split, skin, roast, do · **To what, where:** Squirrels, carcass

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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 (roasting), 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:pg66509:19:40
# text = Squirrels are usually cooked by splitting the carcass, after it has been skinned, and roasting it in the flames until done.
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	splitting	split	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	carcass	carcass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	skinned	skin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj:pass	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present · passive |  | Squirrels |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **split** | gerund |  | the carcass |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient |
| 3 | **skin** | present · perfect · passive |  | carcass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **roast** | gerund |  | carcass |  |  |  | in the flames | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in flame=Instrument |
| 5 | **do** | participle | roasting |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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