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title: He showed the girls where to sleep and since the place where they we… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He showed the girls where to sleep and since the place where they were to sleep was not near him, they knew that he would not marry either of them. Who acts: Woodpecker, girls. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore
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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 74

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He showed the girls where to sleep and since the place where they were to sleep was not near him, they knew that he would not marry either of them.

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**Who acts:** Woodpecker, girls · **What happens:** show, sleep, not be, know, not marry · **To what, where:** girls, either · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Woodpecker, girls), 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:pg66509:14:74
# text = He showed the girls where to sleep and since the place where they were to sleep was not near him, they knew that he would not marry either of them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Woodpecker |  | the girls |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Woodpecker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the place *conj* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | near Woodpecker | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **marry** | would | Woodpecker | either of girls |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Patient |

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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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