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title: Finally some Indians came along the path to visit their rabbit snares. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally some Indians came along the path to visit their rabbit snares. Who acts: Indians, rabbit. 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 26

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Finally some Indians came along the path to visit their rabbit snares.

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**Who acts:** Indians, rabbit · **What happens:** come, visit, snare · **To what, where:** path

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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 (Indians, rabbit), 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:pg66509:7:26
# text = Finally some Indians came along the path to visit their rabbit snares.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	snares	snare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some Indians |  |  | the path |  | finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | some Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **snare** | present | snowshoes's rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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