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title: The Indians were passing the high ledge of rock a few miles below Ha… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indians were passing the high ledge of rock a few miles below Haileybury, where the water was very deep and where they had set their nets. Who acts: Indians, water. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore., with i
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 73

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The Indians were passing the high ledge of rock a few miles below Haileybury, where the water was very deep and where they had set their nets.

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**Who acts:** Indians, water · **What happens:** pass, be, set · **To what, where:** high ledge, Haileybury, Indians

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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 (Indians, water), 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:pg66509:19:73
# text = The Indians were passing the high ledge of rock a few miles below Haileybury, where the water was very deep and where they had set their nets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	below	below	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Haileybury	Haileybury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | the Indians | the high ledge of rock |  | Haileybury  a few miles |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ledge=Theme below haileybury=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | Indians's nets *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme net=Destination |

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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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