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title: So they opened the door in the rock and Nenebuc went in, and one of… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they opened the door in the rock and Nenebuc went in, and one of the daughters came to meet him and said, “Come in, old woman.” Who acts: Lions, Nenebuc, one. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagam
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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 33

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So they opened the door in the rock and Nenebuc went in, and one of the daughters came to meet him and said, “Come in, old woman.”

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**Who acts:** Lions, Nenebuc, one · **What happens:** open, go in, come, meet, say, come in · **To what, where:** door, rock, Nenebuc · **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 (Lions, Nenebuc, one), 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:pg66509:12:33
# text = So they opened the door in the rock and Nenebuc went in, and one of the daughters came to meet him and said, “Come in, old woman.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Lions *= lion* | the door |  | the rock |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in rock=Location |
| 2 | **go in** | past | Nenebuc |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | one of the daughters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | one of the daughters *not said here* | Nenebuc |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lions *= lion* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come in** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | old woman *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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