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title: One summer Nenebuc was unable to get fish for the whole summer on ac… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: One summer Nenebuc was unable to get fish for the whole summer on account of the high winds. Who acts: One summer. 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
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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 52

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One summer Nenebuc was unable to get fish for the whole summer on account of the high winds.

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**Who acts:** One summer · **What happens:** be, get, account · **To what, where:** fish, account, high winds

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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 (One summer), 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:pg66509:11:52
# text = One summer Nenebuc was unable to get fish for the whole summer on account of the high winds.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | One summer |  |  |  |  | Nenebuc *nsubj*; unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | One summer *not said here* | fish |  | account of the high winds | summer |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme on account=Source |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the high winds |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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