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title: And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any ki… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any kind of oil they can oil them a little and roast them before the fire and that it will give them good nourishment when they are hard put to it for something to eat.” Who acts: you, Scabs, kind, rock. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 176

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And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any kind of oil they can oil them a little and roast them before the fire and that it will give them good nourishment when they are hard put to it for something to eat.”

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**Who acts:** you, Scabs, kind, rock · **What happens:** tell, have, oil, roast, give, be · **To what, where:** Scabs, kinds, good nourishment, rock, biggest scabs · **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, Scabs, kind, rock), 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:pg66509:6:176
# text = And now the biggest scabs—you can tell them that if they have any kind of oil they can oil them a little and roast them before the fire and that it will give them good nourishment when they are hard put to it for something to eat.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
43	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you |  | Scabs *= scab* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Scabs *= scab* | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **oil** | can | any kind of oil |  |  |  |  | Scabs *= scab* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roast** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Scabs *= scab* |  |  | before the fire |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | future | rock | good nourishment | Scabs *= scab* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nourishment=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | Scabs *= scab* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | participle |  |  | rock |  |  | for something | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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