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title: As he slid down, anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all the scabs rub… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: As he slid down, anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all the scabs rubbed off. Who acts: ′. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 133

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As he slid down, anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all the scabs rubbed off.

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**Who acts:** ′ · **What happens:** slide down, rub off · **To what, where:** anum suum, scabs

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (′), 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:pg66509:11:133
# text = As he slid down, anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all the scabs rubbed off.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	anum	anum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	suum	suum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	lapidibus	lapidibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	scabit	scabit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide down** | past | ′ | anum suum in lapidibus scabit and all scabs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rub off** | participle |  | all scabs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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