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title: Soon after they had begun trapping, they found a dwarfed beaver in o… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after they had begun trapping, they found a dwarfed beaver in one of the traps. Who acts: spirits. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 39

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Soon after they had begun trapping, they found a dwarfed beaver in one of the traps.

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**Who acts:** spirits · **What happens:** begin, find, dwarf · **To what, where:** trapping, dwarfed beaver

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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 (spirits), 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:pg66509:10:39
# text = Soon after they had begun trapping, they found a dwarfed beaver in one of the traps.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	trapping	trapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dwarfed	dwarf	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · perfect | spirits *= spirit* | trapping |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trapping=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past | spirits *= spirit* | a dwarfed beaver |  |  |  | in one of the traps; soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Topic |
| 3 | **dwarf** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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