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title: Next he got some birch bark peeled off and cleaned a big space near… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he got some birch bark peeled off and cleaned a big space near the fire, spreading the birch bark to put the meat on. Who acts: djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 67

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Next he got some birch bark peeled off and cleaned a big space near the fire, spreading the birch bark to put the meat on.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** get, peel off, clean, spread, put on · **To what, where:** birch bark, big space, fire, meat

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak), 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:pg66509:5:67
# text = Next he got some birch bark peeled off and cleaned a big space near the fire, spreading the birch bark to put the meat on.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	peeled	peel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | djak | some birch bark |  |  |  | next *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus |
| 2 | **peel off** | participle |  | some birch bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clean** | past | djak *not said here* | a big space |  | the fire |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | gerund | djak *not said here* | the birch bark |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bark=Theme |
| 5 | **put on** | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent meat=Goal |

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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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