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title: He used to visit from one family of Indians to another, but he never… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He used to visit from one family of Indians to another, but he never liked to stay long with one, so soon he would move away and go near other people. Who acts: djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation., with its d
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 11

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He used to visit from one family of Indians to another, but he never liked to stay long with one, so soon he would move away and go near other people.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** use, visit, not like, stay, move away, go · **To what, where:** one family

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak), 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:pg66509:9:11
# text = He used to visit from one family of Indians to another, but he never liked to stay long with one, so soon he would move away and go near other people.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	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 | **use** | past | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  | one family of Indians |  | to another | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with one=Location |
| 5 | **move away** | would | djak |  |  |  |  | away, soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near other people | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near people=Location |

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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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