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title: He went out and brought back the sack full of ice, dumped and buried… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He went out and brought back the sack full of ice, dumped and buried it in the fire, and, after a while, they got the potatoes. Who acts: Muskrat, potatoes. 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 Oji
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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 23

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He went out and brought back the sack full of ice, dumped and buried it in the fire, and, after a while, they got the potatoes.

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**Who acts:** Muskrat, potatoes · **What happens:** go out, bring back, dump, bury, get · **To what, where:** sack, fire, potatoes

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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 (Muskrat, potatoes), 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:pg66509:13:23
# text = He went out and brought back the sack full of ice, dumped and buried it in the fire, and, after a while, they got the potatoes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dumped	dump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Muskrat |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring back** | past | Muskrat *not said here* | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |
| 3 | **dump** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bury** | past |  | fire |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination |
| 5 | **get** | past | potatoes *= potato* | the potatoes |  |  | while |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potato=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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