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title: But when the beaver reached Calumet chutes, he was afraid to go thro… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the beaver reached Calumet chutes, he was afraid to go through and took to the portage. Who acts: beaver. 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 c
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 21

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But when the beaver reached Calumet chutes, he was afraid to go through and took to the portage.

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**Who acts:** beaver · **What happens:** reach, be, go through, take · **To what, where:** Calumet chutes

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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 (beaver), 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:pg66509:5:21
# text = But when the beaver reached Calumet chutes, he was afraid to go through and took to the portage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	Calumet	Calumet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chutes	chute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	through	through	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the beaver | Calumet chutes |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent chute=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Beaver |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go through** | to-infinitive | Beaver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Beaver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the portage *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to portage=Result |

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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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