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title: To remove himself from the temptation of breaking her rule he went a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: To remove himself from the temptation of breaking her rule he went away by himself and stayed the first night. Who acts: temptation, man, Skunk. 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
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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 119

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To remove himself from the temptation of breaking her rule he went away by himself and stayed the first night.

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**Who acts:** temptation, man, Skunk · **What happens:** remove, break, go away, stay, rule · **To what, where:** man, temptation, rule

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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 (temptation, man, Skunk), 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:pg66509:15:119
# text = To remove himself from the temptation of breaking her rule he went away by himself and stayed the first night.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | to-infinitive |  | man |  | the temptation |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from temptation=Source |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | the temptation *not said here* | Skunk's rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |
| 3 | **go away** | past | man | Skunk's rule *not said here* |  |  |  | by man; away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rule=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Skunk |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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