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description: They waited until morning and then, taking up his trail, they tracked him to where he had shot a moose and farther on to where he had skinned it. Who acts: wives, 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 T
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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 160

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They waited until morning and then, taking up his trail, they tracked him to where he had shot a moose and farther on to where he had skinned it.

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**Who acts:** wives, man · **What happens:** wait, take up, track, shoot, skin · **To what, where:** trail, man, moose

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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 (wives, 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:pg66509:17:160
# text = They waited until morning and then, taking up his trail, they tracked him to where he had shot a moose and farther on to where he had skinned it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tracked	track	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	skinned	skin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | wives *= wife* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take up** | gerund | wives *= wife* *not said here* | man's trail |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme |
| 3 | **track** | past | wives *= wife* | man |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  | a moose *obj*; far *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination moose=Theme |
| 5 | **skin** | past · perfect | man | moose |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |

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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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