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title: Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beav… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beaver’s tail, telling him to dive and to try and reach the land underneath. Who acts: 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 
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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 64

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Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beaver’s tail, telling him to dive and to try and reach the land underneath.

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**Who acts:** Nenebuc · **What happens:** make, tie, tell, dive, try, reach · **To what, where:** rope, Nenebuc, land · **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 (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:pg66509:12:64
# text = Some time after this he made a rope of roots and tied it to the Beaver’s tail, telling him to dive and to try and reach the land underneath.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Nenebuc | a rope of roots |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product |
| 2 | **tie** | past | Nenebuc *not said here* | rope |  |  |  | to the Beaver's tail | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Nenebuc *not said here* |  | Nenebuc |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nenebuc *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | Nenebuc *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **reach** | infinitive | Nenebuc *not said here* | the land |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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