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title: Wi′ndigo: a man-eating creature who roams through woods devouring lu… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wi′ndigo: a man-eating creature who roams through woods devouring luckless victims. Who acts: eating creature, woods. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 2

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Wi′ndigo: a man-eating creature who roams through woods devouring luckless victims.

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**Who acts:** eating creature, woods · **What happens:** eat, roam, devour · **To what, where:** woods, luckless victims, Wi ndigo

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eating creature, woods), 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:pg66509:10:2
# text = Wi′ndigo: a man-eating creature who roams through woods devouring luckless victims.
1	Wi	Wi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	′	′	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ndigo	ndigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	roams	roam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | man *compound* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roam** | present | a eating creature |  |  | woods |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **devour** | gerund | woods *not said here* | luckless victims |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=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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