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title: The story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky, relati… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky, relating how the various animals tried to reach the north star, but eventually froze to death. Who acts: story accounts, various animals. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Spe
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 15

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The story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky, relating how the various animals tried to reach the north star, but eventually froze to death.

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**Who acts:** story accounts, various animals · **What happens:** relate, try, reach, freeze · **To what, where:** north star

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story accounts, various animals), 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:pg66509:10:15
# text = The story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky, relating how the various animals tried to reach the north star, but eventually froze to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	relating	relate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | gerund | the story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | the various animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the various animals *not said here* | the north star |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 4 | **freeze** | past | the story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky |  |  |  |  | to death; eventually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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