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title: Nenebuc in his tracks encountered the great Bear that killed and ate… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nenebuc in his tracks encountered the great Bear that killed and ate the Indians—so many of them that they feared they would all be killed. Who acts: Nenebuc, great Bear, Indians. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-l
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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 125

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Nenebuc in his tracks encountered the great Bear that killed and ate the Indians—so many of them that they feared they would all be killed.

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc, great Bear, Indians · **What happens:** encounter, kill, eat, fear · **To what, where:** great Bear, Indians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nenebuc, great Bear, Indians), 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:pg66509:12:125
# text = Nenebuc in his tracks encountered the great Bear that killed and ate the Indians—so many of them that they feared they would all be killed.
1	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past | Nenebuc in Nenebuc's tracks | the great Bear |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the great Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the great Bear *not said here* | the Indians |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient |
| 4 | **fear** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **kill** | would · passive |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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