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title: His relatives spent all day hunting for him along the shores, thinki… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: His relatives spent all day hunting for him along the shores, thinking he might come up along the edge, but he did not. Who acts: relatives, hole. 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 tr
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 53

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His relatives spent all day hunting for him along the shores, thinking he might come up along the edge, but he did not.

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**Who acts:** relatives, hole · **What happens:** spend, hunt, think, come up, not do · **To what, where:** shores, edge · **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 (relatives, hole), 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:pg66509:7:53
# text = His relatives spent all day hunting for him along the shores, thinking he might come up along the edge, but he did not.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | hole's relatives |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | hole's relatives *not said here* |  |  | the shores |  | for hole | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme along shore=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | hole's relatives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come up** | might | hole |  |  | the edge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along edge=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **do** | past | hole |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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