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title: In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly near the horizon, so that, early in the morning, she looked at the sun. [12] She brought the water back in a birch bark pail and placed it inside the wigwam, but she could not sit down. Who acts: girl
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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 19

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In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly near the horizon, so that, early in the morning, she looked at the sun. \[12\] She brought the water back in a birch bark pail and placed it inside the wigwam, but she could not sit down.

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**Who acts:** girl, sun · **What happens:** do, make, shine, be, look, bring back · **To what, where:** mistake, horizon, water, bark pail, wigwam

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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 (girl, sun), 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:pg66509:11:19
# text = In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly near the horizon, so that, early in the morning, she looked at the sun. [12] She brought the water back in a birch bark pail and placed it inside the wigwam, but she could not sit down.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
62	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
63	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
64	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
65	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
66	down	down	ADP	RP	_	65	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | girl | a mistake |  |  | morning |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
| 3 | **shine** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  | the horizon |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near horizon=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | so that | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | at the sun. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun.=Theme |
| 6 | **bring back** | past | girl | the water |  | a bark pail |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 7 | **place** | past | girl *not said here* | water |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme inside wigwam=Destination |
| 8 | **not** **sit down** | could | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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