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title: He had learned them when a young man from Algonquins near Dumoine la… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had learned them when a young man from Algonquins near Dumoine lake [1] at the head of Dumoine river. Who acts: Benjamin. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., with its dependency 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 3

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He had learned them when a young man from Algonquins near Dumoine lake \[1\] at the head of Dumoine river.

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**Who acts:** Benjamin · **What happens:** learn · **To what, where:** exploits

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin), 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:pg66509:4:3
# text = He had learned them when a young man from Algonquins near Dumoine lake [1] at the head of Dumoine river.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Algonquins	algonquin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Dumoine	Dumoine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Dumoine	Dumoine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past · perfect | Benjamin | exploits *= exploit* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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