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title: That was the reason why it was continually winter, for so long as he… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: That was the reason why it was continually winter, for so long as he held these birds, they could not bring summer to the North Country. Who acts: That, reason, One, birds. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of 
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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 97

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That was the reason why it was continually winter, for so long as he held these birds, they could not bring summer to the North Country.

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**Who acts:** That, reason, One, birds · **What happens:** be, hold, not bring · **To what, where:** reason, winter, birds, North 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 (That, reason, One, birds), 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:pg66509:16:97
# text = That was the reason why it was continually winter, for so long as he held these birds, they could not bring summer to the North Country.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | the reason |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | reason | winter |  |  |  | continually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | One | this birds |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **bring** | could | birds *= bird* |  | the North Country |  | summer |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to country=Destination |

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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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