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title: (g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: (g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on a Raft; Muskrat Dives for Earth, which Nenebuc Transforms into a New World. Who acts: g, Muskrat Dives. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of 
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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 54

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(g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on a Raft; Muskrat Dives for Earth, which Nenebuc Transforms into a New World.

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**Who acts:** g, Muskrat Dives · **What happens:** cause, gather, transform · **To what, where:** World Flood, Animals, Raft, New World

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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 (g, Muskrat Dives), 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:pg66509:12:54
# text = (g) The Giant Lynx Causes the World Flood and Gathers the Animals on a Raft; Muskrat Dives for Earth, which Nenebuc Transforms into a New World.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Flood	Flood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Muskrat	Muskrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Dives	Dive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Transforms	transform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | g | the World Flood |  |  |  | the Giant Lynx *nsubj*; Muskrat Dives and Nenebuc Transforms *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer flood=Theme dive=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gather** | present | g *not said here* | the Animals |  | a Raft |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **transform** |  | Muskrat Dives and Nenebuc Transforms |  |  | a New World |  |  | 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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