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title: They dried their moccasins, put them on, and also put on rabbit skin… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They dried their moccasins, put them on, and also put on rabbit skin blankets, for they were preparing to run out during the night. Who acts: people. 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., p
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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 70

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They dried their moccasins, put them on, and also put on rabbit skin blankets, for they were preparing to run out during the night.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** dry, put on, put, prepare, run out · **To what, where:** moccasins, people, rabbit skin blankets

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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), 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:pg66509:18:70
# text = They dried their moccasins, put them on, and also put on rabbit skin blankets, for they were preparing to run out during the night.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | past | people | people's moccasins |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient moccasin=Result |
| 2 | **put on** | infinitive | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 3 | **put** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  | rabbit skin blankets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on blanket=Destination |
| 4 | **prepare** | past · progressive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **run out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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