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description: A whirling buzzer, made by spinning a bone or wooden disk on a string operated by the two hands, will cause the wind to rise. Who acts: whirling buzzer. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore., with its dependency tr
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 50

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A whirling buzzer, made by spinning a bone or wooden disk on a string operated by the two hands, will cause the wind to rise.

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**Who acts:** whirling buzzer · **What happens:** whirl, make, spin, operate, cause, rise · **To what, where:** whirling buzzer, bone, string, wind

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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 (whirling buzzer), 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:pg66509:19:50
# text = A whirling buzzer, made by spinning a bone or wooden disk on a string operated by the two hands, will cause the wind to rise.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	buzzer	buzzer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	disk	disk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a whirling buzzer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  | a bone or wooden disk on a string |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 4 | **operate** | participle |  | a string *not said here* |  |  |  | by the two hands | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | future | a whirling buzzer | the wind |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wind=Patient |
| 6 | **rise** | to-infinitive | a whirling buzzer *not said here* | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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