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title: So Ciŋgibis and the two girls went ashore and pulled roots and made… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ciŋgibis and the two girls went ashore and pulled roots and made a string out of them. Who acts: Ciŋgibis. 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 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 109

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So Ciŋgibis and the two girls went ashore and pulled roots and made a string out of them.

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**Who acts:** Ciŋgibis · **What happens:** go, pull, make · **To what, where:** roots, string

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciŋgibis), 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:pg66509:14:109
# text = So Ciŋgibis and the two girls went ashore and pulled roots and made a string out of them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	Ciŋgibis	Ciŋgibis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls *not said here* | roots |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls *not said here* | a string |  |  |  | out roots *= root* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |

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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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