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title: It was a very pretty wigwam and looked so inviting to the tired girl… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a very pretty wigwam and looked so inviting to the tired girls that they went inside to rest. Who acts: wigwam, Girls. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and t
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 27

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It was a very pretty wigwam and looked so inviting to the tired girls that they went inside to rest.

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**Who acts:** wigwam, Girls · **What happens:** be, look, invite, go, rest · **To what, where:** pretty wigwam

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on 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 (wigwam, Girls), 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:pg66509:20:27
# text = It was a very pretty wigwam and looked so inviting to the tired girls that they went inside to rest.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | wigwam | a pretty wigwam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past | wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **invite** | gerund | wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the tired girls | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | Girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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