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title: Make him let the wind blow a while and then stop, so that everything… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make him let the wind blow a while and then stop, so that everything will be all right, but don’t kill him.” Who acts: you, grandfather, wind, everything. 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 Ojibw
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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 56

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Make him let the wind blow a while and then stop, so that everything will be all right, but don’t kill him.”

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**Who acts:** you, grandfather, wind, everything · **What happens:** make, let, blow, stop, be, not kill · **To what, where:** grandfather, wind

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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 (you, grandfather, wind, everything), 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:pg66509:11:56
# text = Make him let the wind blow a while and then stop, so that everything will be all right, but don’t kill him.”
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | grandfather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | grandfather *not said here* | the wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | infinitive | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | future | everything |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **kill** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | grandfather |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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