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title: When his back was toward them, et cum pediturus esset, they opened r… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When his back was toward them, et cum pediturus esset, they opened ranks and Big Fisher ran forth et prius anum Aniwɔ·yei cepit quam hie pedere posset. Who acts: lots, Big Fisher, yei cepit quam. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, 
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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 94

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When his back was toward them, et cum pediturus esset, they opened ranks and Big Fisher ran forth et prius anum Aniwɔ·yei cepit quam hie pedere posset.

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**Who acts:** lots, Big Fisher, yei cepit quam · **What happens:** be, open, run, hie · **To what, where:** pediturus esset, ranks, et prius anum, pedere posset

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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 (lots, Big Fisher, yei cepit quam), 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:pg66509:15:94
# text = When his back was toward them, et cum pediturus esset, they opened ranks and Big Fisher ran forth et prius anum Aniwɔ·yei cepit quam hie pedere posset.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pediturus	pediturus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	esset	esset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	et	et	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	prius	prius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	anum	anum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	Aniwɔ	Aniwɔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	yei	yei	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
27	cepit	cepit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	quam	quam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hie	hie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	pedere	pedere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	posset	posset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lots *= lot* *not said here* | pediturus esset |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | lots *= lot* | ranks |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rank=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | Big Fisher | et prius anum |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anum=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hie** | present | yei cepit quam | pedere posset |  |  |  |  | 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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