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title: “Come, tie this bladder on your tail and swim further out in the dee… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come, tie this bladder on your tail and swim further out in the deep water where it is cold and cool it for me. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 111

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“Come, tie this bladder on your tail and swim further out in the deep water where it is cold and cool it for me.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** tie, swim, be · **To what, where:** bladder, deep water

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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 (water), 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:pg66509:5:111
# text = “Come, tie this bladder on your tail and swim further out in the deep water where it is cold and cool it for me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	further	further	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this bladder |  |  |  | on your tail | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient on tail=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **swim** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the deep water |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | water |  |  |  |  | for Wiske; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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