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title: They answered “Kαckuŋge′s·i” (“Jump out and frighten”). — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They answered “Kαckuŋge′s·i” (“Jump out and frighten”). Who acts: names. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 122

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They answered “Kαckuŋge′s·i” (“Jump out and frighten”).

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**Who acts:** names · **What happens:** answer, jump out, frighten · **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, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names), 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:pg66509:11:122
# text = They answered “Kαckuŋge′s·i” (“Jump out and frighten”).
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Kαckuŋge	Kαckuŋge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump out** *in a quote* | infinitive | names *= name* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** *in a quote* | infinitive | names *= name* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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