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title: He asked Rabbit, “Has anybody been passing here lately Hee!” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He asked Rabbit, “Has anybody been passing here lately Hee!” Who acts: Lynx, anybody. 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 clau
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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 45

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He asked Rabbit, “Has anybody been passing here lately Hee!”

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**Who acts:** Lynx, anybody · **What happens:** ask, have, pass, be · **To what, where:** Rabbit, Hee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lynx, anybody), 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:pg66509:17:45
# text = He asked Rabbit, “Has anybody been passing here lately Hee!”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
9	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	Hee	Hee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Lynx |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | anybody | Hee |  |  |  | lately *property* | tree rules |

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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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