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title: After he had been travelling all day and taken a few animals, he saw… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had been travelling all day and taken a few animals, he saw a bear that was half black and half white. Who acts: man, bear. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 32

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After he had been travelling all day and taken a few animals, he saw a bear that was half black and half white.

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**Who acts:** man, bear · **What happens:** travel, take, see, be · **To what, where:** few animals, bear

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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 (man, bear), 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:pg66509:10:32
# text = After he had been travelling all day and taken a few animals, he saw a bear that was half black and half white.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	amod	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	advmod	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past · perfect · progressive | man |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | participle | man *not said here* |  | a few animals |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past | man | a bear |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | a bear |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | half *property* | tree rules |

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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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