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title: They killed nearly all of them, and at last no more Iroquois faces a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They killed nearly all of them, and at last no more Iroquois faces appeared above the hole, but the sons could hear crying. Who acts: sons, last. 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 
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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 82

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They killed nearly all of them, and at last no more Iroquois faces appeared above the hole, but the sons could hear crying.

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**Who acts:** sons, last · **What happens:** kill, appear, hear, cry · **To what, where:** all, hole

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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 (sons, last), 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:pg66509:18:82
# text = They killed nearly all of them, and at last no more Iroquois faces appeared above the hole, but the sons could hear crying.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
11	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	Iroquois	iroquois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | sons *= son* | all of people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | last  more Iroquois faces |  |  | the hole |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above hole=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | could | the sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the sons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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