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title: He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions [… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions [18] (mici·′bi­zi‵w “giant lynx”). Who acts: f. 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
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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 4

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He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions \[18\] (mici·′bi­zi‵w “giant lynx”).

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**Who acts:** f · **What happens:** come, see · **To what, where:** big lake, Lions

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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 (f), 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:pg66509:12:4
# text = He came to a big lake with a nice, sandy shore, where he saw Lions [18] (mici·′bi­zi‵w “giant lynx”).
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	mici	mici	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	bi	bi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	­	­	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	zi	zi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	‵	‵	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	w	w	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lynx	lynx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | f |  |  | a big lake |  | with a nice sandy shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | f | Lions |  |  |  | 18 and mici *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |

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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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