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title: Soon two girls came along with an axe to get some wood and began cut… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon two girls came along with an axe to get some wood and began cutting at the hollow pine in which Nenebuc was. Who acts: two girls. 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 2, with its
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 118

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Soon two girls came along with an axe to get some wood and began cutting at the hollow pine in which Nenebuc was.

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**Who acts:** two girls · **What happens:** come along, get, begin, cut · **To what, where:** wood

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls), 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:pg66509:12:118
# text = Soon two girls came along with an axe to get some wood and began cutting at the hollow pine in which Nenebuc was.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past | two girls |  |  |  |  | with a axe; along, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | two girls *not said here* | some wood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past | two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cut** | gerund | two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the hollow pine | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pine=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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