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title: So he killed the leader and then took hold of the second deer’s nose… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he killed the leader and then took hold of the second deer’s nose, and so lead them all to his camp alive, where he butchered them. Who acts: leader. 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.
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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 185

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So he killed the leader and then took hold of the second deer’s nose, and so lead them all to his camp alive, where he butchered them.

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**Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** kill, take, lead, butcher, hold · **To what, where:** leader, hold, nose, camp

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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 (leader), 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:pg66509:17:185
# text = So he killed the leader and then took hold of the second deer’s nose, and so lead them all to his camp alive, where he butchered them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	butchered	butcher	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | leader | the leader |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | leader *not said here* | hold of the second deer's nose |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | infinitive |  | nose |  | leader's camp |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to camp=Destination |
| 4 | **butcher** | past | leader | nose |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the second deer's nose |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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