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title: He got under one lying flat, and pushed it just a little above the w… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He got under one lying flat, and pushed it just a little above the water so that his nostrils were out of water, yet covered by the stem of the rush. Who acts: family, nostrils. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle.,
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 90

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He got under one lying flat, and pushed it just a little above the water so that his nostrils were out of water, yet covered by the stem of the rush.

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**Who acts:** family, nostrils · **What happens:** get, lie, push, be, cover, stem · **To what, where:** dove, water, rush

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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 (family, nostrils), 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:pg66509:7:90
# text = He got under one lying flat, and pushed it just a little above the water so that his nostrils were out of water, yet covered by the stem of the rush.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | family |  |  |  |  | under one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | past | family *not said here* | dove |  |  |  | a little above the water *obl* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | family's nostrils |  |  | water |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** | participle | family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the stem of the rush | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stem** |  |  | the rush |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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