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title: At that time there were people living, four in number: a woman, a yo… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time there were people living, four in number: a woman, a young baby who could hardly walk, and two sons who were grown-up men. Who acts: people, young baby. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Tim
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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 52

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At that time there were people living, four in number: a woman, a young baby who could hardly walk, and two sons who were grown-up men.

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**Who acts:** people, young baby · **What happens:** be, live, walk, grow up · **To what, where:** four, number, two sons

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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 (people, young baby), 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:pg66509:18:52
# text = At that time there were people living, four in number: a woman, a young baby who could hardly walk, and two sons who were grown-up men.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | people |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* | four |  | number |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location |
| 3 | **walk** | could | a young baby |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow up** | past · passive |  | two sons |  |  |  | men *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Product |

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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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