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title: “A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαcku… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαckuŋge′s·i,’ super nos defaecavit. Who acts: man, we, Partridge, our. 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
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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 128

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“A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαckuŋge′s·i,’ super nos defaecavit.

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**Who acts:** man, we, Partridge, our · **What happens:** come along, ask, tell, nos, name · **To what, where:** name, us, ′, defaecavit · **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 (man, we, Partridge, our), 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:pg66509:11:128
# text = “A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαckuŋge′s·i,’ super nos defaecavit.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Kαckuŋge	Kαckuŋge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	′	′	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	super	super	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	nos	nos	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	defaecavit	defaecavit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** *in a quote* | past | a man |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | a man *not said here* | our name | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | we |  | ′ |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **nos** *in a quote* | infinitive | Partridge | defaecavit |  |  |  | super *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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