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title: Moles are very rare in the Timagami neighbourhood and quite a stir i… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moles are very rare in the Timagami neighbourhood and quite a stir is raised when one is encountered. Who acts: Moles. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 31

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Moles are very rare in the Timagami neighbourhood and quite a stir is raised when one is encountered.

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**Who acts:** Moles · **What happens:** be, raise, encounter · **To what, where:** Timagami neighbourhood, stir, one

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moles), 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:pg66509:19:31
# text = Moles are very rare in the Timagami neighbourhood and quite a stir is raised when one is encountered.
1	Moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Timagami	Timagami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Moles |  |  | the Timagami neighbourhood |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | present · passive |  | quite stir |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **encounter** | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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