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title: Wemicus stayed in the canoe and told the man to go ashore and to bri… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wemicus stayed in the canoe and told the man to go ashore and to bring the eggs back with him and fill the canoe. 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 3, with its d
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 149

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Wemicus stayed in the canoe and told the man to go ashore and to bring the eggs back with him and fill the canoe.

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**Who acts:** Wemicus · **What happens:** stay, tell, go, bring back, fill · **To what, where:** canoe, man, eggs · **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 3. 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:pg66509:13:149
# text = Wemicus stayed in the canoe and told the man to go ashore and to bring the eggs back with him and fill the canoe.
1	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Wemicus |  |  | the canoe |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Wemicus *not said here* |  | the man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | the eggs |  |  |  | with Wemicus | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | infinitive | Wemicus *not said here* | the canoe |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent canoe=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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