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title: The younger girl heard the noise of the mite′win down below. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The younger girl heard the noise of the mite′win down below. Who acts: younger girl, noise, mite ′. 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 pragmatics
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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 21

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The younger girl heard the noise of the mite′win down below.

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**Who acts:** younger girl, noise, mite ′ · **What happens:** hear, win, noise

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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 (younger girl, noise, mite ′), 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:pg66509:14:21
# text = The younger girl heard the noise of the mite′win down below.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	below	below	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the younger girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **win** | present | the noise of the mite ′ |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **noise** |  | the mite ′ |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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