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title: Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began feeling all around, poking in the corners of the wigwam to find if Ayas·e were there. Who acts: number, e. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore 
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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 72

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Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began feeling all around, poking in the corners of the wigwam to find if Ayas·e were there.

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**Who acts:** number, e · **What happens:** take, use, poke, begin, feel, find · **To what, where:** stick, fire, corners, Ayas · **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 (number, e), 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:pg66509:16:72
# text = Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began feeling all around, poking in the corners of the wigwam to find if Ayas·e were there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	Ayas	Aya	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | number | a stick |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | number | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **poke** | to-infinitive | number *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **poke** | gerund | number *not said here* |  |  | the corners of the wigwam |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | number *not said here* | Ayas |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aya=Topic |
| 8 | **is** | past | e |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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