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title: He then wrapped his feet with spruce boughs and pushed the boulder a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He then wrapped his feet with spruce boughs and pushed the boulder ahead of him in order to melt the snow. Who acts: Wemicus. 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 3, with its dependen
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 114

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He then wrapped his feet with spruce boughs and pushed the boulder ahead of him in order to melt the snow.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** wrap, push, melt · **To what, where:** feet, boulder, order, snow

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wemicus), 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:pg66509:13:114
# text = He then wrapped his feet with spruce boughs and pushed the boulder ahead of him in order to melt the snow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boulder	boulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's feet |  |  | then | with spruce boughs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Destination with bough=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past | Wemicus *not said here* | the boulder |  | order |  | ahead *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boulder=Theme in order=Trajectory |
| 3 | **melt** | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | the snow |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient snow=Result |

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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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