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title: So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where peo… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where people would come in a canoe if any were around. Who acts: djak, clear space, people. 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 dependenc
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 57

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So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where people would come in a canoe if any were around.

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**Who acts:** djak, clear space, people · **What happens:** decide, lie down, face, come, be · **To what, where:** clear space, lake, 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 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, clear space, people), 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:pg66509:6:57
# text = So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where people would come in a canoe if any were around.
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	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  | a clear space |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in space=Location |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | a clear space *not said here* | the lake |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | would | people |  |  | a canoe |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | tree rules |

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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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