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title: [7] The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [7] The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco. Who acts: 7 Indians. 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 42

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\[7\] The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco.

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**Who acts:** 7 Indians · **What happens:** use, mix · **To what, where:** red willow bark

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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 (7 Indians), 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:pg66509:21:42
# text = [7] The Indians often use the red willow bark to mix with tobacco.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | the 7 Indians | the red willow bark |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient |
| 2 | **mix** | to-infinitive | the 7 Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tobacco | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tobacco=Co-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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