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title: Don’t swim too fast and go easy or you might break the bladder and s… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Don’t swim too fast and go easy or you might break the bladder and spill my grease.” Who acts: you. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 112

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Don’t swim too fast and go easy or you might break the bladder and spill my grease.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not swim, go, break, spill · **To what, where:** bladder, grease

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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 (you), 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:pg66509:5:112
# text = Don’t swim too fast and go easy or you might break the bladder and spill my grease.”
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spill	spill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | might | you | the bladder |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bladder=Patient |
| 4 | **spill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my grease |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grease=Theme |

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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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