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title: A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted to cross. Who acts: man, one time, lake. 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 dependency tree and the p
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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 112

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A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted to cross.

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**Who acts:** man, one time, lake · **What happens:** be, walk, come, want, cross · **To what, where:** one time, lake

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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 (man, one time, lake), 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:pg66509:17:112
# text = A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted to cross.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a man | one time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | one time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | one time *not said here* |  |  | a lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **want** | past | a lake |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **cross** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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