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title: But far out in the middle of the lake the “Hell-diver” came swimming… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: But far out in the middle of the lake the “Hell-diver” came swimming to the surface and called aloud. Who acts: Hell diver. 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 the
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 51

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But far out in the middle of the lake the “Hell-diver” came swimming to the surface and called aloud.

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**Who acts:** Hell diver · **What happens:** come, swim, call · **To what, where:** lake, surface, middle · **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 (Hell 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:pg66509:20:51
# text = But far out in the middle of the lake the “Hell-diver” came swimming to the surface and called aloud.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	diver	diver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Hell diver | the lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | the Hell diver *not said here* |  |  | the surface |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to surface=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the surface *not said here* |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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