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title: The Iroquois followed them on snowshoes, but the sons made a great n… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Iroquois followed them on snowshoes, but the sons made a great number of branch trails in order to deceive them. Who acts: Iroquois, sons. 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, 
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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 76

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The Iroquois followed them on snowshoes, but the sons made a great number of branch trails in order to deceive them.

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**Who acts:** Iroquois, sons · **What happens:** follow, make, deceive · **To what, where:** people, snowshoes, great number

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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 (Iroquois, 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:pg66509:18:76
# text = The Iroquois followed them on snowshoes, but the sons made a great number of branch trails in order to deceive them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	snowshoes	snowshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Iroquois | people |  | snowshoes |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on snowshoe=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | past | the sons | a great number of branch trails in order |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Product |
| 3 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | the sons *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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