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title: So he had to make his living on rabbits, stealing them from the Indi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he had to make his living on rabbits, stealing them from the Indians’ snares. Who acts: Wiske, Indians. 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 every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 18

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So he had to make his living on rabbits, stealing them from the Indians’ snares.

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**Who acts:** Wiske, Indians · **What happens:** have, make, steal, live, snare · **To what, where:** living, eyes, snares

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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 (Wiske, Indians), 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:pg66509:7:18
# text = So he had to make his living on rabbits, stealing them from the Indians’ snares.
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	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Wiske |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Wiske *not said here* | Wiske's living |  |  |  | on rabbits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
| 3 | **steal** | gerund | Wiske *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  | the Indians's snares |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from snare=Source |
| 4 | **live** |  | Wiske |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **snare** |  | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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