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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 60

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By being very careful and not touching the skulls, he gained the inside of the rock house without making any noise.

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**Who acts:** smoke · **What happens:** be, not touch, gain, make · **To what, where:** skulls, inside, noise

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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 (smoke), 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:pg66509:16:60
# text = By being very careful and not touching the skulls, he gained the inside of the rock house without making any noise.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | gerund | smoke *not said here* | the skulls |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skull=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | past | smoke | the inside of the rock house |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | smoke *not said here* | any noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |

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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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