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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 9

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b–p, bilabial stops varying between true sonant and intermediate surd-sonant.

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**Who acts:** b bilabial · **What happens:** stop, vary

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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 (b bilabial), 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:pg66509:21:9
# text = b–p, bilabial stops varying between true sonant and intermediate surd-sonant.
1	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	bilabial	bilabial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
10	sonant	sonant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	intermediate	intermediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	surd	surd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	sonant	sonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | b bilabial |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vary** | gerund | b bilabial *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between true sonant surd sonant | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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