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title: So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but take the man selected for them. Who acts: young girls, man. 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 7, with its depend
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 109

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So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but take the man selected for them.

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**Who acts:** young girls, man · **What happens:** not try, get, look, take, select · **To what, where:** looking man

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girls, man), 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:pg66509:17:109
# text = So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but take the man selected for them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **try** | should | young girls |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | young girls *not said here* | a looking man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | young girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **select** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | for mittens *= mitten* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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