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title: The hook of bone formerly was fastened into a shank of wood and this… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hook of bone formerly was fastened into a shank of wood and this tied to a line by a leather leader which the teeth of the fish could not sever. Who acts: leather leader, teeth. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.,
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 98

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The hook of bone formerly was fastened into a shank of wood and this tied to a line by a leather leader which the teeth of the fish could not sever.

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**Who acts:** leather leader, teeth · **What happens:** fasten, tie, not sever · **To what, where:** hook, this, leather leader

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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 (leather leader, teeth), 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:pg66509:21:98
# text = The hook of bone formerly was fastened into a shank of wood and this tied to a line by a leather leader which the teeth of the fish could not sever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shank	shank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | the hook of bone |  |  |  | into a shank of wood; formerly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient into shank=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **tie** | participle · passive | a leather leader | this |  |  |  | to a line | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to line=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **not** **sever** | could | the teeth of the fish | a leather leader |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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