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description: There was no dry or green wood lying around, but inside the house they saw a fire-place and plenty of hay. Who acts: dry wood, woods. 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 
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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 61

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There was no dry or green wood lying around, but inside the house they saw a fire-place and plenty of hay.

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**Who acts:** dry wood, woods · **What happens:** be, lie around, see · **To what, where:** fire place, house

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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 (dry wood, woods), 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:pg66509:14:61
# text = There was no dry or green wood lying around, but inside the house they saw a fire-place and plenty of hay.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no dry wood |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie around** | gerund | no dry wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | woods *= wood* | a fire place and plenty of hay |  | the house |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=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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