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title: [44] To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [44] To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabins beneath the ice. Who acts: 44. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 105

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\[44\] To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabins beneath the ice.

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**Who acts:** 44 · **What happens:** drive, be · **To what, where:** beaver, fish, cabins

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (44), 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:pg66509:21:105
# text = [44] To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabins beneath the ice.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	To	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cabins	cabin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | to-infinitive | 44 *not said here* | beaver |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | 44 |  |  |  |  | fish *obj*; hunt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | 44 *not said here* | fish |  | fish's cabins beneath the ice |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from cabin=Trajectory |

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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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