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title: He is not in the least altruistic, though he seems to have in mind s… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is not in the least altruistic, though he seems to have in mind some provision for the Indians, as appears more particularly in story number 4. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timisk
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 7

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He is not in the least altruistic, though he seems to have in mind some provision for the Indians, as appears more particularly in story number 4.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** not be, seem, have, appear · **To what, where:** provision, mind, story number

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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 (Jack), 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:pg66509:4:7
# text = He is not in the least altruistic, though he seems to have in mind some provision for the Indians, as appears more particularly in story number 4.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	altruistic	altruistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Jack |  |  |  |  | altruistic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | some provision |  | mind |  | for the Indians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | present | Jack *not said here* |  |  | story number |  | particularly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location |

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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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