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title: And a little way off shore was a little island with many grasses; ju… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: And a little way off shore was a little island with many grasses; just as the beaver provides a winter supply of greens for himself near his lodge, so this island he supposed to be the beaver’s winter supply and the mountain his lodge. Who acts: little way, beaver, island. A sentence of «Myths and F
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 11

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And a little way off shore was a little island with many grasses; just as the beaver provides a winter supply of greens for himself near his lodge, so this island he supposed to be the beaver’s winter supply and the mountain his lodge.

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**Who acts:** little way, beaver, island · **What happens:** be, provide, suppose · **To what, where:** little island, winter supply, lodge

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little way, beaver, island), 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:pg66509:5:11
# text = And a little way off shore was a little island with many grasses; just as the beaver provides a winter supply of greens for himself near his lodge, so this island he supposed to be the beaver’s winter supply and the mountain his lodge.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	provides	provide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nmod	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a little way off shore | a little island |  |  |  | with many grasses | tree rules |
| 2 | **provide** | present | the beaver | a winter supply of greens for Beaver near Beaver's lodge |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition supply=Theme |
| 3 | **suppose** | past | this island | Beaver's lodge |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lodge=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | this island *not said here* | the beaver's winter supply and the mountain |  |  |  | the beaver *nmod:poss*; the mountain *conj* | tree rules |

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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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