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title: One of the children saw the mitten and Ninicip’s wife sent the child… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the children saw the mitten and Ninicip’s wife sent the child to return it, bidding him not to go too close to Wemicus but to throw him the mitten. Who acts: children, wife. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-
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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 158

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One of the children saw the mitten and Ninicip’s wife sent the child to return it, bidding him not to go too close to Wemicus but to throw him the mitten.

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**Who acts:** children, wife · **What happens:** see, send, return, bid, not go, throw · **To what, where:** One, child, wigwam, Ninicip, mitten, Wemicus

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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 (children, wife), 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:pg66509:12:158
# text = One of the children saw the mitten and Ninicip’s wife sent the child to return it, bidding him not to go too close to Wemicus but to throw him the mitten.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mitten	mitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Ninicip	Ninicip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mitten	mitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the children | One |  |  |  | the mitten *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mitten=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past | Ninicip's wife | the child |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife *not said here* | wigwam |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **bid** | gerund | Ninicip's wife *not said here* | Ninicip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife *not said here* | the mitten | Wemicus |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination mitten=Theme |

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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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