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title: In their excursions, when they got far from home, they cut and paint… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: In their excursions, when they got far from home, they cut and painted pictures in the rocks on river or lake shores, so that their friends, if they ever penetrated so far, would know that their own people had been there before them. Who acts: paddles, friends, own people. A sentence of «Myths and F
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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 46

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In their excursions, when they got far from home, they cut and painted pictures in the rocks on river or lake shores, so that their friends, if they ever penetrated so far, would know that their own people had been there before them.

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**Who acts:** paddles, friends, own people · **What happens:** get, cut, paint, penetrate, know, be · **To what, where:** excursions, rocks · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paddles, friends, own people), 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:pg66509:18:46
# text = In their excursions, when they got far from home, they cut and painted pictures in the rocks on river or lake shores, so that their friends, if they ever penetrated so far, would know that their own people had been there before them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	excursions	excursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	cop	_	_
46	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	ccomp	_	_
47	before	before	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | paddles *= paddle* |  |  | paddles's excursions |  | from home; far *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from home=Destination |
| 2 | **cut** | present | paddles *= paddle* |  |  | the rocks on river or lake shores |  | painted pictures *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **penetrate** | past | paddles's friends |  |  |  | ever | paddles *= paddle* *nsubj*; far *property* | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | would | paddles's friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | paddles's own people |  |  |  | before paddles *= paddle* | there *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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