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title: ·, denotes that preceding vowel or consonant is long. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ·, denotes that preceding vowel or consonant is long. Who acts: preceding. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., 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, Phonetic Key., sentence 24

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·, denotes that preceding vowel or consonant is long.

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**Who acts:** preceding · **What happens:** denote, precede, be · **To what, where:** vowel

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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 (preceding), 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:pg66509:21:24
# text = ·, denotes that preceding vowel or consonant is long.
1	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
6	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denote** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund |  | vowel or consonant |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vowel=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | preceding |  |  |  |  | long *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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