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title: The old woman told her sons to keep Ciŋgəbis well supplied with the… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman told her sons to keep Ciŋgəbis well supplied with the drink and not to let him leave until late. Who acts: old woman, Ciŋgəbis. 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 an
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 124

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The old woman told her sons to keep Ciŋgəbis well supplied with the drink and not to let him leave until late.

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**Who acts:** old woman, Ciŋgəbis · **What happens:** tell, keep, supply, not let, leave · **To what, where:** sons, Ciŋgəbis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old woman, Ciŋgəbis), 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:pg66509:7:124
# text = The old woman told her sons to keep Ciŋgəbis well supplied with the drink and not to let him leave until late.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbi	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	until	until	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  | woman's sons |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | Ciŋgəbis |  |  |  | with the drink | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciŋgəbi=Theme |
| 3 | **supply** | participle |  | Ciŋgəbis *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | Ciŋgəbis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | Ciŋgəbis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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