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title: He followed them and looked under the log, and there were the ants e… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He followed them and looked under the log, and there were the ants eating away on the Bear’s skull, devouring the brains. Who acts: thing, ants. 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
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 127

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He followed them and looked under the log, and there were the ants eating away on the Bear’s skull, devouring the brains.

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**Who acts:** thing, ants · **What happens:** follow, look, be, eat away, devour · **To what, where:** ants, skull, brains

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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 (thing, ants), 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:pg66509:5:127
# text = He followed them and looked under the log, and there were the ants eating away on the Bear’s skull, devouring the brains.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | thing | ants *= ant* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under the log | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under log=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | the ants |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat away** | gerund | the ants *not said here* |  |  | the Bear's skull |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **devour** | gerund | the ants *not said here* | the brains |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

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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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