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title: When the man sailed over the spot where Wemicus had upset, he saw a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the man sailed over the spot where Wemicus had upset, he saw a big pike (ki·nų′je) there, into which Wemicus had been transformed when the canoe upset. Who acts: man, Wemicus. 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 3, sentence 180

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When the man sailed over the spot where Wemicus had upset, he saw a big pike (ki·nų′je) there, into which Wemicus had been transformed when the canoe upset.

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**Who acts:** man, Wemicus · **What happens:** sail, have, see, transform · **To what, where:** spot, big pike, 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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:pg66509:13:180
# text = When the man sailed over the spot where Wemicus had upset, he saw a big pike (ki·nų′je) there, into which Wemicus had been transformed when the canoe upset.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	nų	nų	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
29	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the man |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over spot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | Wemicus |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Wemicus | a big pike |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus |
| 4 | **transform** | past · perfect · passive |  | Wemicus |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result |

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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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