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description: At last somebody discovered where this creature lived, and they decided that some one would go and try to free the Summer-birds. Who acts: creature, birds, one. 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
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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 99

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At last somebody discovered where this creature lived, and they decided that some one would go and try to free the Summer-birds.

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**Who acts:** creature, birds, one · **What happens:** discover, live, decide, go, try · **To what, where:** somebody · **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 (creature, birds, one), 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:pg66509:16:99
# text = At last somebody discovered where this creature lived, and they decided that some one would go and try to free the Summer-birds.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
4	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past |  |  |  | somebody |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | this creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | would | some one |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | infinitive | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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