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title: Soon Wemicus and his family were starving again and Wemicus said, “I… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon Wemicus and his family were starving again and Wemicus said, “I must go and see my son-in-law, Muskrat. 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 depend
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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 181

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Soon Wemicus and his family were starving again and Wemicus said, “I must go and see my son-in-law, Muskrat.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** starve, say, go, see · **To what, where:** son, law · **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:pg66509:12:181
# text = Soon Wemicus and his family were starving again and Wemicus said, “I must go and see my son-in-law, Muskrat.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Muskrat	Muskrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past · progressive | Wemicus and Wemicus's family |  |  |  | again | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wemicus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | must | Wemicus |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | my son |  | law |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |

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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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