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title: Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which keeps the bark spread, extended over the ends of the bark and kept it from opening inwards. Who acts: djak, centre stick. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 8

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Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which keeps the bark spread, extended over the ends of the bark and kept it from opening inwards.

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**Who acts:** djak, centre stick · **What happens:** make, keep, spread, extend, open · **To what, where:** door, bark, ends, stick

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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 (djak, centre stick), 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:pg66509:6:8
# text = Then he made his door of birch bark, so that the centre stick, which keeps the bark spread, extended over the ends of the bark and kept it from opening inwards.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | djak | djak's door of birch bark |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the centre stick | the bark |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | past | the centre stick |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **extend** | participle | the centre stick *not said here* |  |  |  | over the ends of the bark |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over end=Path |
| 5 | **keep** | past | djak *not said here* | stick |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **open** | gerund | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inwards *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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