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title: The mother would attend to the snares and leave the baby, wrapped in… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother would attend to the snares and leave the baby, wrapped in a rabbit skin blanket, alone in the camp, while the two sons would hunt and look around for game, having only bows and arrows. Who acts: mother, two sons. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami
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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 55

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The mother would attend to the snares and leave the baby, wrapped in a rabbit skin blanket, alone in the camp, while the two sons would hunt and look around for game, having only bows and arrows.

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**Who acts:** mother, two sons · **What happens:** attend, leave, wrap, hunt, look around, have · **To what, where:** baby, skin blanket, bows

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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 (mother, two sons), 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:pg66509:18:55
# text = The mother would attend to the snares and leave the baby, wrapped in a rabbit skin blanket, alone in the camp, while the two sons would hunt and look around for game, having only bows and arrows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	around	around	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | would | the mother |  |  |  |  | to the snares | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to snare=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | the mother *not said here* | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
| 3 | **wrap** | participle |  | the baby *not said here* |  | a skin blanket |  | alone *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in blanket=Destination |
| 4 | **hunt** | would | the two sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look around** | infinitive | the two sons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for game; around *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | the two sons *not said here* | bows and arrows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |

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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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