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title: Then he took his witch stone [35] and threw it up inside the wigwam,… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took his witch stone [35] and threw it up inside the wigwam, and the whole wigwam turned to stone except a little hole in the top for the smoke to come through. Who acts: man, whole wigwam. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 42

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Then he took his witch stone \[35\] and threw it up inside the wigwam, and the whole wigwam turned to stone except a little hole in the top for the smoke to come through.

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**Who acts:** man, whole wigwam · **What happens:** take, throw up, turn, come through · **To what, where:** witch stone, stone, wigwam

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, whole wigwam), 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:pg66509:15:42
# text = Then he took his witch stone [35] and threw it up inside the wigwam, and the whole wigwam turned to stone except a little hole in the top for the smoke to come through.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	except	except	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
37	through	through	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | man's witch stone |  |  | then | 35 *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **throw up** | past | man *not said here* | stone |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | participle | the whole wigwam |  |  | stone |  | except a little hole in the top for the smoke | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come through** | to-infinitive | the whole wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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