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title: A little narrative of a meeting with these creatures is told by some… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A little narrative of a meeting with these creatures is told by some Timagami Indians who had been to Lake Timiskaming. Who acts: Timagami Indians. 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 an
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 72

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A little narrative of a meeting with these creatures is told by some Timagami Indians who had been to Lake Timiskaming.

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**Who acts:** Timagami Indians · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** little narrative, Timagami Indians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Timagami Indians), 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:pg66509:19:72
# text = A little narrative of a meeting with these creatures is told by some Timagami Indians who had been to Lake Timiskaming.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	Timagami	Timagami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	iobj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	Timiskaming	Timiskaming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a little narrative of a meeting with this creatures | some Timagami Indians |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient indian=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | some Timagami Indians |  |  |  |  | to Lake | tree rules |

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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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