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description: When they were on Abitibi river they drew near the big falls there without knowing it. Who acts: Indians, Abitibi river. 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 ever
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 90

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When they were on Abitibi river they drew near the big falls there without knowing it.

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**Who acts:** Indians, Abitibi river · **What happens:** be, draw, know · **To what, where:** Abitibi river, big falls, Way

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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 (Indians, Abitibi river), 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:pg66509:10:90
# text = When they were on Abitibi river they drew near the big falls there without knowing it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Abitibi	Abitibi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  | Abitibi river |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Abitibi river |  |  | the big falls |  | Indians *= indian* *nsubj* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | Abitibi river *not said here* | Way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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