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title: The Ojibwa never go near there when they can avoid it; and they seld… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibwa never go near there when they can avoid it; and they seldom throw a stone in the lake, splash their paddles, or shoot their guns near its shores. Who acts: Ojibwa, plaints. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Fo
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 43

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The Ojibwa never go near there when they can avoid it; and they seldom throw a stone in the lake, splash their paddles, or shoot their guns near its shores.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa, plaints · **What happens:** not go, avoid, throw, splash, shoot · **To what, where:** Ojibwa, stone, lake, paddles, guns, shores

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwa, plaints), 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:pg66509:18:43
# text = The Ojibwa never go near there when they can avoid it; and they seldom throw a stone in the lake, splash their paddles, or shoot their guns near its shores.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	splash	splash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	paddles	paddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present | the Ojibwa |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **avoid** | can | plaints *= plaint* | Ojibwa |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 3 | **throw** | present | plaints *= plaint* | a stone |  | the lake |  | seldom *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in lake=Destination |
| 4 | **splash** | infinitive | plaints *= plaint* *not said here* | plaints's paddles |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paddle=Theme |
| 5 | **shoot** | infinitive | the Ojibwa *not said here* | plaints's guns |  | Ojibwa's shores |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent gun=Theme near shore=Destination |

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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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