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title: The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush wh… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush when other foods fail. Who acts: rock weed, other foods. 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 claus
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 45

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The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush when other foods fail.

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**Who acts:** rock weed, other foods · **What happens:** kwund, eat, fail · **To what, where:** ′ kwund, bush

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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 (rock weed, other foods), 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:pg66509:21:45
# text = The “rock weed,” wa′kwund (rock tripe) is often eaten in the bush when other foods fail.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	wa	wa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	kwund	kwund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tripe	tripe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kwund** |  | the rock weed |  |  |  |  | rock tripe *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | ′ kwund |  | the bush |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fail** | present | other foods |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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