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title: Then Aniwɔ·ye spoke, “If you can’t walk, I can cure you, so that you… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Aniwɔ·ye spoke, “If you can’t walk, I can cure you, so that you will be as well and strong as you ever were.” Who acts: Aniwɔ, you. 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, with i
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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 77

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Then Aniwɔ·ye spoke, “If you can’t walk, I can cure you, so that you will be as well and strong as you ever were.”

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**Who acts:** Aniwɔ, you · **What happens:** speak, not walk, cure, be · **To what, where:** you · **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 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, you), 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:pg66509:15:77
# text = Then Aniwɔ·ye spoke, “If you can’t walk, I can cure you, so that you will be as well and strong as you ever were.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Aniwɔ	Aniwɔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Aniwɔ |  |  |  | then | ye *nsubj* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **walk** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** *in a quote* | can | Aniwɔ | you |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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