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title: He had no canoe, so he always walked about, going great distances he… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no canoe, so he always walked about, going great distances here and there and everywhere, until he had travelled almost all over the world, where he was heard of doing his mischievous pranks. Who acts: djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 5

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He had no canoe, so he always walked about, going great distances here and there and everywhere, until he had travelled almost all over the world, where he was heard of doing his mischievous pranks.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** have, walk, go, travell, hear, do · **To what, where:** canoe, great distances, world, djak, mischievous pranks

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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:pg66509:9:5
# text = He had no canoe, so he always walked about, going great distances here and there and everywhere, until he had travelled almost all over the world, where he was heard of doing his mischievous pranks.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
25	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | djak | no canoe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | past | djak |  |  |  |  | about, always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | djak *not said here* | great distances |  | here; there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
| 4 | **travell** | past · perfect | djak |  |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · passive |  | djak |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | gerund |  | djak's mischievous pranks |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Eventuality |

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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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