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title: So he went home.”—“If a hunter sees an albino animal he must stop hu… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went home.”—“If a hunter sees an albino animal he must stop hunting or evil will befall him or some member of his family.” Who acts: harm, hunter, albino animal. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 35

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So he went home.”—“If a hunter sees an albino animal he must stop hunting or evil will befall him or some member of his family.”

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**Who acts:** harm, hunter, albino animal · **What happens:** go, see, stop, hunt, befall · **To what, where:** albino animal, harm · **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, 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 (harm, hunter, albino animal), 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:pg66509:10:35
# text = So he went home.”—“If a hunter sees an albino animal he must stop hunting or evil will befall him or some member of his family.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	albino	albino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | harm |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stop** | must | harm | a albino animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | harm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | evil *conj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **befall** | future | a albino animal | harm |  |  |  |  | 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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