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title: It was winter and the sons had two rabbit snares’ trails, one to the… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was winter and the sons had two rabbit snares’ trails, one to the east and the other to the north, and they went to different lines on different days. Who acts: family, sons, two rabbit. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths 
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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 54

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It was winter and the sons had two rabbit snares’ trails, one to the east and the other to the north, and they went to different lines on different days.

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**Who acts:** family, sons, two rabbit · **What happens:** be, have, snare, go · **To what, where:** winter, trails, different lines

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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 (family, sons, two rabbit), 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:pg66509:18:54
# text = It was winter and the sons had two rabbit snares’ trails, one to the east and the other to the north, and they went to different lines on different days.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	snares	snare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | family | winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the sons | winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winter=Patient |
| 3 | **snare** | present | two rabbit | trails |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trail=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | different lines on different days |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to line=Initial\_Location |

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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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