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title: Then he asked for some eagle feathers (but this was a wiske·djak (Ca… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he asked for some eagle feathers (but this was a wiske·djak (Canadian Jay) feather). Who acts: Ciŋgibis, this. 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 4, with its dependency tree an
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 154

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Then he asked for some eagle feathers (but this was a wiske·djak (Canadian Jay) feather).

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**Who acts:** Ciŋgibis, this · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** wiske

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciŋgibis, this), 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:pg66509:14:154
# text = Then he asked for some eagle feathers (but this was a wiske·djak (Canadian Jay) feather).
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wiske	wiske	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ciŋgibis |  |  |  | then | for some eagle feathers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | a wiske and djak |  |  |  | djak *conj* | tree rules |

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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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