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title: Looking in at the window, they saw the Loon playing the fiddle and a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking in at the window, they saw the Loon playing the fiddle and all the dancers enjoying themselves, so they returned to their bed and placed two logs under the blankets to deceive their kind friend, the “Hell-diver,” into thinking that they were still where he had left them. Who acts: Girls, Loo
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 38

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Looking in at the window, they saw the Loon playing the fiddle and all the dancers enjoying themselves, so they returned to their bed and placed two logs under the blankets to deceive their kind friend, the “Hell-diver,” into thinking that they were still where he had left them.

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**Who acts:** Girls, Loon, dancers · **What happens:** look in, see, play, enjoy, return, place · **To what, where:** Loon, fiddle, Girls, two logs, blankets, kind friend · **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, 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 (Girls, Loon, dancers), 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:pg66509:20:38
# text = Looking in at the window, they saw the Loon playing the fiddle and all the dancers enjoying themselves, so they returned to their bed and placed two logs under the blankets to deceive their kind friend, the “Hell-diver,” into thinking that they were still where he had left them.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Loon	Loon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	diver	diver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
47	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
52	still	still	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
53	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	ccomp	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look in** | gerund | Girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Girls *= girl* | the Loon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | the Loon *not said here* | the fiddle and all dancers |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | gerund | all dancers *not said here* | Girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 5 | **return** | past | Girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | to Girls's bed *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result |
| 6 | **place** | past | Girls *= girl* *not said here* | two logs |  | the blankets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent log=Theme under blanket=Destination |
| 7 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | Girls *= girl* *not said here* | Girls's kind friend and the Hell diver |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | Girls *= girl* |  |  | still | Diver *nsubj*; friend *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute |

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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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