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title: At this time they were big enough to shoot bows and arrows and to go… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: At this time they were big enough to shoot bows and arrows and to go in a canoe with their grandmother to set the night lines [42] for fish. Who acts: father. 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 O
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 131

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At this time they were big enough to shoot bows and arrows and to go in a canoe with their grandmother to set the night lines \[42\] for fish.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** be, shoot, go, set · **To what, where:** bows, canoe, night lines

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg66509:16:131
# text = At this time they were big enough to shoot bows and arrows and to go in a canoe with their grandmother to set the night lines [42] for fish.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | father |  |  |  | time | big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | bows and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  | a canoe |  | with father's grandmother | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with grandmother=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | the night lines |  |  |  | for fish | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent line=Patient for fish=Beneficiary |

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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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