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title: “Well, bring the pail, anyway, and get some spoons,” said Wemicus. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, bring the pail, anyway, and get some spoons,” said Wemicus. 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 the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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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 172

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“Well, bring the pail, anyway, and get some spoons,” said Wemicus.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** bring, get, say · **To what, where:** pail, spoons · **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:pg66509:12:172
# text = “Well, bring the pail, anyway, and get some spoons,” said Wemicus.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the pail |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pail=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some spoons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spoon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wemicus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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