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title: Then he jumped up upon the cross poles in his wigwam [25] and in vas… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he jumped up upon the cross poles in his wigwam [25] and in vas lapidum sub se [26] defaecavit, telling his wife to stir up the contents of the pot. Who acts: Wemicus. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 152

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Then he jumped up upon the cross poles in his wigwam \[25\] and in vas lapidum sub se \[26\] defaecavit, telling his wife to stir up the contents of the pot.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** jump up, be, tell, stir up · **To what, where:** wigwam, 26 defaecavit, wife, contents · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wemicus), 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:pg66509:12:152
# text = Then he jumped up upon the cross poles in his wigwam [25] and in vas lapidum sub se [26] defaecavit, telling his wife to stir up the contents of the pot.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	vas	vas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lapidum	lapidum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	sub	sub	ADV	AFX	_	18	punct	_	_
20	se	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	defaecavit	defaecavit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | Wemicus |  |  | Wemicus's wigwam | then | upon the cross poles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon pole=Trajectory |
| 2 | **be** | present | Wemicus *not said here* | 26 defaecavit |  |  |  | in vas lapidum | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot defaecavit=Theme in lapidum=Attribute |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Wemicus *not said here* |  | Wemicus's wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stir up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | the contents of the pot |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition contents=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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