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title: Pretty soon he saw a lot of clumps of high-bush cranberries and comm… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretty soon he saw a lot of clumps of high-bush cranberries and commenced to eat from one little clump to another. Who acts: djak. 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 pragm
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 38

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Pretty soon he saw a lot of clumps of high-bush cranberries and commenced to eat from one little clump to another.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** see, commence, eat · **To what, where:** lot, one little clump

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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), 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:pg66509:5:38
# text = Pretty soon he saw a lot of clumps of high-bush cranberries and commenced to eat from one little clump to another.
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	clumps	clump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | djak | a lot of clumps of bush cranberries |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **commence** | participle | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  | one little clump to another |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from clump=Source |

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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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