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title: While the two girls were dancing, the “Hell-diver” returned and lay… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: While the two girls were dancing, the “Hell-diver” returned and lay down under the blankets, but the logs happened to be partly rotten and were filled with ants, so that it wasn’t long before he discovered the trick that had been played on him. Who acts: two girls, logs, bed, Diver. A sentence of «M
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 39

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While the two girls were dancing, the “Hell-diver” returned and lay down under the blankets, but the logs happened to be partly rotten and were filled with ants, so that it wasn’t long before he discovered the trick that had been played on him.

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**Who acts:** two girls, logs, bed, Diver · **What happens:** dance, return, lay down, happen, be, fill · **To what, where:** Hell diver, blankets, trick

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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 (two girls, logs, bed, Diver), 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:pg66509:20:39
# text = While the two girls were dancing, the “Hell-diver” returned and lay down under the blankets, but the logs happened to be partly rotten and were filled with ants, so that it wasn’t long before he discovered the trick that had been played on him.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	diver	diver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
42	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | the two girls | the Hell diver |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diver=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | participle | the two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | the two girls *not said here* |  |  | the blankets |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under blanket=Destination |
| 4 | **happen** | past | the logs |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the logs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | partly, rotten *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fill** | past · passive | the logs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ants | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with ant=Instrument |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past | bed |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **discover** | past | Diver | the trick |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic |
| 9 | **play** | past · perfect · passive |  | the trick |  |  |  | on Diver | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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