---
title: To bring on a snowstorm an infant is allowed to make its moccasin pr… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: To bring on a snowstorm an infant is allowed to make its moccasin print in the snow. Who acts: snowstorm, infant. 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 clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/19/44/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / [Timagami Folk-lore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/19/) / 44

# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 44

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To bring on a snowstorm an infant is allowed to make its moccasin print in the snow.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** snowstorm, infant · **What happens:** bring, allow, make, print · **To what, where:** snowstorm, infant, moccasin print, snow

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (snowstorm, infant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:19:44
# text = To bring on a snowstorm an infant is allowed to make its moccasin print in the snow.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	moccasin	moccasin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a snowstorm |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snowstorm=Destination |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive | a snowstorm *not said here* | a infant |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a infant *not said here* | infant's moccasin print |  | the snow |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset print=Product |
| 4 | **print** |  | infant |  |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/19/43/)
- next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/19/45/)
- ↑ back to [Timagami Folk-lore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/19/)