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description: Then he thought of draining the lake, so he went way around to the lower end and broke away the dam so that the water would run off. Who acts: djak, 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 depe
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 13

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Then he thought of draining the lake, so he went way around to the lower end and broke away the dam so that the water would run off.

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**Who acts:** djak, water · **What happens:** think, drain, go around, break away, run off · **To what, where:** lake, way, dam

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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 (djak, 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:pg66509:5:13
# text = Then he thought of draining the lake, so he went way around to the lower end and broke away the dam so that the water would run off.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	draining	drain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | djak |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drain** | gerund | djak *not said here* | the lake |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lake=Source |
| 3 | **go around** | past | djak | way |  |  | to the lower end | around *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **break away** | past | djak *not said here* | the dam |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dam=Patient |
| 5 | **run off** | would | the water |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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