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title: They struggled for some time, but Big Fisher held fast, and at last… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They struggled for some time, but Big Fisher held fast, and at last Aniwɔ·ye died because he could not discharge. Who acts: bįs, Big Fisher, ye, Aniwɔ. 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.,
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 101

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They struggled for some time, but Big Fisher held fast, and at last Aniwɔ·ye died because he could not discharge.

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**Who acts:** bįs, Big Fisher, ye, Aniwɔ · **What happens:** struggle, hold, die, not discharge · **To what, where:** last Aniwɔ

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bįs, Big Fisher, ye, Aniwɔ), 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:pg66509:15:101
# text = They struggled for some time, but Big Fisher held fast, and at last Aniwɔ·ye died because he could not discharge.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Aniwɔ	Aniwɔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	discharge	discharge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	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 | **struggle** | past | bįs *= bį* |  |  |  | time |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Big Fisher |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | ye |  |  | last Aniwɔ |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **discharge** | could | Aniwɔ |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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