--- title: Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics description: Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught. Who acts: Indians. 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 pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/140/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Oj…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/) / 140 # Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 140 Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught. **Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** go back, have, catch · **To what, where:** big feast, those, Indians 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 (Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66509:17:140 # text = Then they went back and had a big feast on those they had caught. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | Indians *= indian* | | | | then | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | a big feast | | those | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | | 3 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | | Indians *= indian* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/141/) - ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/17/)