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title: “Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit. Who acts: people, Wayaʻkabi. 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 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 59

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“Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** people, Wayaʻkabi · **What happens:** sit, answer · **To what, where:** fire, Rabbit

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Wayaʻkabi), 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:pg66509:17:59
# text = “Wayaʻkabi·′te” (people sitting around a fire), answered Rabbit.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wayaʻkabi	Wayaʻkabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | a fire |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fire=Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Wayaʻkabi |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |

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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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