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title: When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the tree and pecked upon it in imitation of Meme. Who acts: wife, water, 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
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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 47

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When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the tree and pecked upon it in imitation of Meme.

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**Who acts:** wife, water, Wemicus · **What happens:** have, boil, climb up, peck, imitate · **To what, where:** water, tree, imitation, Meme

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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 (wife, water, 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:pg66509:13:47
# text = When she had the water boiling in the pail, Wemicus climbed up the tree and pecked upon it in imitation of Meme.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Meme	Meme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | wife | the water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the pail | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pail=Instrument |
| 3 | **climb up** | past | Wemicus | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 4 | **peck** | participle | Wemicus *not said here* |  |  | imitation of Meme |  | upon tree | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 5 | **imitate** |  |  | Meme |  |  |  |  | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=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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