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title: “Still in high ground,” said he, “but getting lower.” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Still in high ground,” said he, “but getting lower.” Who acts: high ground. 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 152

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“Still in high ground,” said he, “but getting lower.”

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**Who acts:** high ground · **What happens:** say, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (high ground), 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:pg66509:5:152
# text = “Still in high ground,” said he, “but getting lower.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | high ground |  |  |  |  | Beech *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund | high ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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