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title: The people had arrived here after a hard trip and begged Big Fisher… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The people had arrived here after a hard trip and begged Big Fisher for protection from Aniwɔ·ye. Who acts: people. 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 its dependency tree an
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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 82

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The people had arrived here after a hard trip and begged Big Fisher for protection from Aniwɔ·ye.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** arrive, beg · **To what, where:** ye, Big Fisher, 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 (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:pg66509:15:82
# text = The people had arrived here after a hard trip and begged Big Fisher for protection from Aniwɔ·ye.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Aniwɔ	Aniwɔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | the people |  |  | here | after a hard trip |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the people *not said here* | ye | Big Fisher | Aniwɔ |  | for protection | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fisher=Recipient for protection=Topic |

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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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