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title: [37] In winter-time, the Indians keep a hole chopped through the ice… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [37] In winter-time, the Indians keep a hole chopped through the ice near their camp for the water supply. Who acts: Indians. 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 cl
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 90

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\[37\] In winter-time, the Indians keep a hole chopped through the ice near their camp for the water supply.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** keep, chop · **To what, where:** hole, 37

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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 (Indians), 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:pg66509:21:90
# text = [37] In winter-time, the Indians keep a hole chopped through the ice near their camp for the water supply.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the Indians | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 2 | **chop** | participle |  | a hole *not said here* |  |  |  | through the ice near Indians's camp for the water supply | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through ice=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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