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title: [41] This is the bend in the handle of the Great Dipper. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [41] This is the bend in the handle of the Great Dipper. Who acts: This. 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 95

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\[41\] This is the bend in the handle of the Great Dipper.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bend, handle, 41

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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 (This), 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:pg66509:21:95
# text = [41] This is the bend in the handle of the Great Dipper.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Dipper	Dipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the bend |  | the handle of the Great Dipper |  |  | 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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