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title: So he went back to the upper end of the portage and there saw more f… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went back to the upper end of the portage and there saw more fresh tracks leading to the lower end. Who acts: djak, more fresh tracks. 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
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 29

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So he went back to the upper end of the portage and there saw more fresh tracks leading to the lower end.

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**Who acts:** djak, more fresh tracks · **What happens:** go back, see, lead · **To what, where:** more fresh tracks

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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, more fresh tracks), 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:pg66509:5:29
# text = So he went back to the upper end of the portage and there saw more fresh tracks leading to the lower end.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | djak |  |  |  | to the upper end of the portage |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | djak *not said here* | more fresh tracks |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | more fresh tracks *not said here* |  |  |  | to the lower end |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to end=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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