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description: The characters of these pictures would tell what had happened, so that if the advance party never returned to their people, some record would at least be left behind of their journey.” Who acts: characters, advance party, people. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Ti
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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 47

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The characters of these pictures would tell what had happened, so that if the advance party never returned to their people, some record would at least be left behind of their journey.”

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**Who acts:** characters, advance party, people · **What happens:** tell, happen, not return, leave, journey · **To what, where:** record, least · **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 (characters, advance party, 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:pg66509:18:47
# text = The characters of these pictures would tell what had happened, so that if the advance party never returned to their people, some record would at least be left behind of their journey.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	obl	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | the characters of this pictures |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the advance party |  |  |  |  | to pictures's people *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | would · passive |  | some record |  | least |  | behind people's journey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at least=Location |
| 5 | **journey** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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