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title: He went on and soon got into very tight bush and struck an alder. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He went on and soon got into very tight bush and struck an alder. Who acts: Cedar. 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 163

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He went on and soon got into very tight bush and struck an alder.

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**Who acts:** Cedar · **What happens:** go on, get, strike · **To what, where:** tight bush, alder

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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 (Cedar), 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:pg66509:5:163
# text = He went on and soon got into very tight bush and struck an alder.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	alder	alder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Cedar |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | Cedar *not said here* |  |  | tight bush |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination |
| 3 | **strike** | past | Cedar *not said here* | a alder |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alder=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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