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title: When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be a pretty good man; but there are still more tricks for you to perform. Who acts: One, Bears, You, more tricks. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lo
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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 19

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When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be a pretty good man; but there are still more tricks for you to perform.

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**Who acts:** One, Bears, You, more tricks · **What happens:** reach, say, seem, be, perform · **To what, where:** starting point, good man · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Bears, You, more tricks), 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:pg66509:16:19
# text = When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be a pretty good man; but there are still more tricks for you to perform.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | One | the starting point |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a good man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **does** *in a quote* | present | more tricks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **perform** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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