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title: Then I dive to the bottom and eat some little mussels and things on… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I dive to the bottom and eat some little mussels and things on the bottom and come up to the hole again. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 100

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Then I dive to the bottom and eat some little mussels and things on the bottom and come up to the hole again.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** dive, eat, come up · **To what, where:** bottom, little mussels, hole

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg66509:7:100
# text = Then I dive to the bottom and eat some little mussels and things on the bottom and come up to the hole again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dive	dive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mussels	mussel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | present | I |  |  | the bottom | then |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | I *not said here* | some little mussels and things |  | the bottom |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Patient |
| 3 | **come up** | present | I *not said here* |  |  | the hole | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial\_Location |

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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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