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title: Now this time there were some Indians coming around the point in a c… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this time there were some Indians coming around the point in a canoe and they saw the smoke from Wiske·djak’s fire on the shore of the lake. Who acts: time, Indians, djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., p
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 70

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Now this time there were some Indians coming around the point in a canoe and they saw the smoke from Wiske·djak’s fire on the shore of the lake.

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**Who acts:** time, Indians, djak · **What happens:** come, see, fire · **To what, where:** point, smoke, Wiske, shore

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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 (time, Indians, djak), 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:pg66509:6:70
# text = Now this time there were some Indians coming around the point in a canoe and they saw the smoke from Wiske·djak’s fire on the shore of the lake.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | this time |  |  | the point | now | in a canoe; some Indians *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around point=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Indians *= indian* | the smoke |  | Wiske |  | djak's fire on the shore of the lake *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fire** |  | djak |  |  | the shore of the lake |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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