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title: These dwarf-like creatures have ugly faces and seek to hide them whe… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: These dwarf-like creatures have ugly faces and seek to hide them when they meet with people. Who acts: like creatures, Creatures. 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 o
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 71

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These dwarf-like creatures have ugly faces and seek to hide them when they meet with people.

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**Who acts:** like creatures, Creatures · **What happens:** have, seek, hide, meet · **To what, where:** ugly faces, Creatures

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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 (like creatures, Creatures), 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:pg66509:19:71
# text = These dwarf-like creatures have ugly faces and seek to hide them when they meet with people.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | this like creatures | ugly faces |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | this like creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this like creatures *not said here* | Creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **meet** | present | Creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | with people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with people=Co-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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