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description: Very often they used to go picking berries, for their country was a rocky country where berries abounded. Who acts: Ayas, country, berries. 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, wit
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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 54

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Very often they used to go picking berries, for their country was a rocky country where berries abounded.

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**Who acts:** Ayas, country, berries · **What happens:** use, go, pick, be, abound · **To what, where:** picking berries, rocky country

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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 (Ayas, country, berries), 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:pg66509:16:54
# text = Very often they used to go picking berries, for their country was a rocky country where berries abounded.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	abounded	abound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	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 | **use** | past | Ayas *= aya* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Ayas *= aya* *not said here* | picking berries |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location berry=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Ayas's country | a rocky country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **abound** | past | berries |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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