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title: Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (om… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (omα′kαk·i·‵). Who acts: Nenebuc, queen, i. 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 26

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Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (omα′kαk·i·‵).

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc, queen, i · **What happens:** discover, be, kαk · **To what, where:** person, all

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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, queen, i), 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:pg66509:12:26
# text = Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (omα′kαk·i·‵).
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	omα	omα	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kαk	kαk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | Nenebuc |  |  |  | then | a big toad *parataxis* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | queen | no person |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kαk** |  | i |  |  |  |  | ‵ *conj* | tree rules |

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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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