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title: Wemicus thought that was an easy way in which to live—just to get ic… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wemicus thought that was an easy way in which to live—just to get ice for potatoes. Who acts: Wemicus, that. 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 dependency tree and the p
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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 190

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Wemicus thought that was an easy way in which to live—just to get ice for potatoes.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus, that · **What happens:** think, be, live, get · **To what, where:** easy way, ice · **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 (Wemicus, that), 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:pg66509:12:190
# text = Wemicus thought that was an easy way in which to live—just to get ice for potatoes.
1	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Wemicus |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | a easy way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* |  |  | a easy way |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | ice |  |  |  | for potatoes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ice=Theme for potato=Source |

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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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