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title: Revenge took hold of all the people and they at once gave chase, but… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Revenge took hold of all the people and they at once gave chase, but were unable to catch the murderer, and, as darkness was upon them, they said, “We will build a dam and in the morning, when the lake is dry, we will catch him.” Who acts: Revenge, people, We, lake. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lor
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 53

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Revenge took hold of all the people and they at once gave chase, but were unable to catch the murderer, and, as darkness was upon them, they said, “We will build a dam and in the morning, when the lake is dry, we will catch him.”

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**Who acts:** Revenge, people, We, lake · **What happens:** take, give, be, catch, say, build · **To what, where:** hold, chase, murderer, dam, Lake, people · **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 (Revenge, people, We, lake), 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:pg66509:20:53
# text = Revenge took hold of all the people and they at once gave chase, but were unable to catch the murderer, and, as darkness was upon them, they said, “We will build a dam and in the morning, when the lake is dry, we will catch him.”
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	49	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Revenge | hold of all people |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent hold=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | past | people | chase |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent chase=Theme at once=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the murderer |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon people | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people |  |  |  |  | as darkness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **build** *in a quote* | future | We | a dam and the morning |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the lake |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **catch** *in a quote* | future | we | Lake |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 10 | **hold** |  |  | all people |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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