---
title: As before, he ate a little snack of corn and the old woman said to h… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: As before, he ate a little snack of corn and the old woman said to him, “Where you are going will be a very hard trip for you. Who acts: man, little snack, going. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timaga
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/157/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Oj…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/) / 157

# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 157

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As before, he ate a little snack of corn and the old woman said to him, “Where you are going will be a very hard trip for you.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man, little snack, going · **What happens:** eat, say, go, be · **To what, where:** man, hard trip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (man, little snack, going), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:15:157
# text = As before, he ate a little snack of corn and the old woman said to him, “Where you are going will be a very hard trip for you.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | man |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a little snack of corn and the old woman |  | man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | going | a hard trip |  |  |  | for man | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/156/)
- next →: [sentence 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/158/)
- ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/)