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title: And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you wi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you will give them some of my scabs and tell them to wash them in cold water and boil them with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» b
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 174

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And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you will give them some of my scabs and tell them to wash them in cold water and boil them with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, eat, give, tell, wash, boil · **To what, where:** Indians, rock, some, cold water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66509:6:174
# text = And when the Indians are hard put to it for something to eat, you will give them some of my scabs and tell them to wash them in cold water and boil them with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	boil	boil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive |  | the Indians | rock |  |  | for something | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | future | you | some of my scabs | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient some=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wash** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Indians *= indian* |  | cold water |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **boil** | present | you *not said here* | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | with rabbit meat or any kind of meat or fish | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with meat=Instrument |

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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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