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title: When Gitcikwe′we took the portage, he sent his wife and children ahe… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Gitcikwe′we took the portage, he sent his wife and children ahead and told them to hurry on as fast as they could, while he would follow behind with the canoe. Who acts: Gitcikwe ′, portage. 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 8, sentence 10

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When Gitcikwe′we took the portage, he sent his wife and children ahead and told them to hurry on as fast as they could, while he would follow behind with the canoe.

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**Who acts:** Gitcikwe ′, portage · **What happens:** take, send, tell, hurry on, follow · **To what, where:** portage, wife, children · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gitcikwe ′, portage), 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:pg66509:18:10
# text = When Gitcikwe′we took the portage, he sent his wife and children ahead and told them to hurry on as fast as they could, while he would follow behind with the canoe.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Gitcikwe	Gitcikwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Gitcikwe ′ | the portage |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portage=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | portage | portage's wife and children |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | portage *not said here* |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hurry on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | portage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | would | portage |  |  |  |  | with the canoe; behind *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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