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title: But he grew uneasy lest somebody might come while he was sleeping an… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: But he grew uneasy lest somebody might come while he was sleeping and steal his birds. Who acts: djak, somebody. 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 pragmatics of every cla
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 55

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But he grew uneasy lest somebody might come while he was sleeping and steal his birds.

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**Who acts:** djak, somebody · **What happens:** grow, come, sleep, steal · **To what, where:** birds

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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 (djak, somebody), 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:pg66509:6:55
# text = But he grew uneasy lest somebody might come while he was sleeping and steal his birds.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | djak |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | might | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past · progressive | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **steal** | present | djak *not said here* | djak's birds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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