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title: Whenever he would encounter people, he would approach them et pepedi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever he would encounter people, he would approach them et pepedit towards their camp with his back to them, killing the people malo ejus odore. Who acts: Aniwɔ, people. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of 
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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 58

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Whenever he would encounter people, he would approach them et pepedit towards their camp with his back to them, killing the people malo ejus odore.

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**Who acts:** Aniwɔ, people · **What happens:** encounter, approach, kill, malo · **To what, where:** people, odore

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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 (Aniwɔ, people), 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:pg66509:15:58
# text = Whenever he would encounter people, he would approach them et pepedit towards their camp with his back to them, killing the people malo ejus odore.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	encounter	encounter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	pepedit	pepedit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	malo	malo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	ejus	ejus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	odore	odore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | would | Aniwɔ | people |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **approach** | would | Aniwɔ | people |  |  |  | towards people's camp with Aniwɔ's back to people; et pepedit *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | Aniwɔ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **malo** | past | the people | odore |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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