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description: Then the girls hid and told the trees, whenever Wolverine should come back and whistle for them, to answer him by whistling. Who acts: girls, Wolverine. 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.
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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 54

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Then the girls hid and told the trees, whenever Wolverine should come back and whistle for them, to answer him by whistling.

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**Who acts:** girls, Wolverine · **What happens:** hide, tell, come back, whistle, answer · **To what, where:** trees, Wolverine · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, Wolverine), 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:pg66509:14:54
# text = Then the girls hid and told the trees, whenever Wolverine should come back and whistle for them, to answer him by whistling.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	Wolverine	Wolverine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the girls |  |  |  | then |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the girls *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come back** | should | Wolverine |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **whistle** | infinitive | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for girls *= girl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Wolverine *not said here* |  | Wolverine |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 6 | **whistle** | gerund | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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