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title: Before he came to the edge of the water there were a lot of low will… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before he came to the edge of the water there were a lot of low willows he had to crawl through. Who acts: Wiske, lot, low willows. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 166

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Before he came to the edge of the water there were a lot of low willows he had to crawl through.

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**Who acts:** Wiske, lot, low willows · **What happens:** come, be, have, crawl · **To what, where:** edge, low willows

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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, lot, low willows), 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:pg66509:6:166
# text = Before he came to the edge of the water there were a lot of low willows he had to crawl through.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
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	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	through	through	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Wiske |  |  | the edge of the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | a lot of low willows |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Wiske | low willows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crawl** | to-infinitive | low willows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «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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