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title: So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of trees where there was a great chasm below, hundreds of feet deep, with a nice cool breeze coming over. Who acts: Wiske, clear trees, nice cool breeze. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Oji
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 131

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So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of trees where there was a great chasm below, hundreds of feet deep, with a nice cool breeze coming over.

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**Who acts:** Wiske, clear trees, nice cool breeze · **What happens:** search, come, be, come over · **To what, where:** mountain, place, great chasm

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske, clear trees, nice cool breeze), 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:pg66509:6:131
# text = So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of trees where there was a great chasm below, hundreds of feet deep, with a nice cool breeze coming over.
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	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chasm	chasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
22	below	below	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
34	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	over	over	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | Wiske |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around mountain=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | Wiske |  |  | a place |  | a nice cool breeze *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | clear trees | a great chasm |  |  |  | below *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come over** | gerund | a nice cool breeze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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