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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 8

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When she was twelve years old, the age of puberty, she was taken over a hill and was kept there in a camp alone for twelve days, neither eating nor drinking, in order that she might have a dream.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, take, keep, eat, drink, have · **To what, where:** wife, hill, camp, order, dream

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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 (wife), 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:pg66509:11:8
# text = When she was twelve years old, the age of puberty, she was taken over a hill and was kept there in a camp alone for twelve days, neither eating nor drinking, in order that she might have a dream.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc:preconj	_	_
32	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  | the age of puberty; year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | wife |  | a hill |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** | past · passive |  |  |  | a camp; there | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in camp=Location |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  | order |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | might | wife | a dream |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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