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title: At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushing the arrow farther in. Who acts: little lion children, Nenebuc. 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 
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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 49

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At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushing the arrow farther in.

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**Who acts:** little lion children, Nenebuc · **What happens:** peep, see, push · **To what, where:** Nenebuc, arrow

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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 (little lion children, Nenebuc), 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:pg66509:12:49
# text = At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushing the arrow farther in.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past | the little lion children |  |  |  |  | at last one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the little lion children *not said here* | Nenebuc |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **push** | gerund | Nenebuc *not said here* | the arrow |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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