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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 135

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Just run up that black-spruce tree and taste the acorn seeds and then see whether you want to eat people any more.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** run up, taste, see, want, eat · **To what, where:** spruce tree, acorn seeds, people · **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 (you), 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:pg66509:12:135
# text = Just run up that black-spruce tree and taste the acorn seeds and then see whether you want to eat people any more.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	taste	taste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | imperative | you *not said here* | that spruce tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **taste** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the acorn seeds |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme seed=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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