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title: s and z, surd and sonant dorsal sibilant pronounced with tip of tong… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: s and z, surd and sonant dorsal sibilant pronounced with tip of tongue deflected to lower alveolar (applies only to Timiskaming Algonquin; in Timagami Ojibwa s and z are normal). Who acts: lower alveolar. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 12

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s and z, surd and sonant dorsal sibilant pronounced with tip of tongue deflected to lower alveolar (applies only to Timiskaming Algonquin; in Timagami Ojibwa s and z are normal).

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**Who acts:** lower alveolar · **What happens:** pronounce, deflect, apply, be · **To what, where:** sonant dorsal sibilant, tongue, Timiskaming, Timagami

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lower alveolar), 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:pg66509:21:12
# text = s and z, surd and sonant dorsal sibilant pronounced with tip of tongue deflected to lower alveolar (applies only to Timiskaming Algonquin; in Timagami Ojibwa s and z are normal).
1	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	surd	surd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	sonant	sonant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dorsal	dorsal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sibilant	sibilant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	deflected	deflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	alveolar	alveolar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	applies	apply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Timiskaming	Timiskaming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Timagami	Timagami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	28	case	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | participle |  | sonant dorsal sibilant *not said here* |  |  |  | with tip of tongue | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with tip=Manner |
| 2 | **deflect** | participle |  | tongue *not said here* |  |  |  | to lower alveolar | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **apply** | present | lower alveolar *not said here* | Timiskaming |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timiskaming=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Timagami and z |  | normal *property* | 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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