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title: When he came to Ki·we·′goma, he found it even too big to swim, so he… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to Ki·we·′goma, he found it even too big to swim, so he started to walk around it. Who acts: djak, we, canoe. 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
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 7

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When he came to Ki·we·′goma, he found it even too big to swim, so he started to walk around it.

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**Who acts:** djak, we, canoe · **What happens:** come, goma, find, swim, start, walk · **To what, where:** Ki, canoe

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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, we, canoe), 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:pg66509:5:7
# text = When he came to Ki·we·′goma, he found it even too big to swim, so he started to walk around it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	′	′	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	goma	goma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | djak |  |  | Ki |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ki=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **goma** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | djak | canoe |  |  |  | big *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **swim** | to-infinitive | canoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **start** | past | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **walk** | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  | canoe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory |

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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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