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title: He saw nothing in particular that frightened him, but on account of… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw nothing in particular that frightened him, but on account of his mi·te′w feeling he became afraid and knew that something was coming. Who acts: Pi, te ′, something. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of t
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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 6

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He saw nothing in particular that frightened him, but on account of his mi·te′w feeling he became afraid and knew that something was coming.

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**Who acts:** Pi, te ′, something · **What happens:** see, frighten, feel, become, know, come · **To what, where:** nothing, particular, Pi, mi · **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 (Pi, te ′, something), 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:pg66509:18:6
# text = He saw nothing in particular that frightened him, but on account of his mi·te′w feeling he became afraid and knew that something was coming.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	w	with	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	20	mark	_	_
20	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Pi | nothing |  | particular |  | te ′ on account of Pi's mi *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **frighten** | past |  | Pi |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | te ′ on account of Pi's mi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | Pi |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | past | Pi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | past · progressive | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **account** |  |  | Pi's mi |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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