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title: So he walked past the cave in which the Lions lived and kept singing… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he walked past the cave in which the Lions lived and kept singing and rattling all the time. Who acts: Nenebuc, Lions. 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 t
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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 30

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So he walked past the cave in which the Lions lived and kept singing and rattling all the time.

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc, Lions · **What happens:** walk, live, keep, sing, rattle · **To what, where:** cave

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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, Lions), 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:pg66509:12:30
# text = So he walked past the cave in which the Lions lived and kept singing and rattling all the time.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lions	Lion	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Nenebuc |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past cave=Trajectory |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Lions |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the Lions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the Lions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rattle** | gerund | the Lions *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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