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title: I must beat that Windigo, because he will bother us all winter, and… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: I must beat that Windigo, because he will bother us all winter, and then we will starve, for I cannot hunt while staying at camp all the time, watching out for you and the children.” Who acts: I, Windigo, we. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Fra
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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 16

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I must beat that Windigo, because he will bother us all winter, and then we will starve, for I cannot hunt while staying at camp all the time, watching out for you and the children.”

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**Who acts:** I, Windigo, we · **What happens:** beat, bother, starve, not hunt, stay, watch out · **To what, where:** Windigo, us, camp

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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 (I, Windigo, we), 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:pg66509:18:16
# text = I must beat that Windigo, because he will bother us all winter, and then we will starve, for I cannot hunt while staying at camp all the time, watching out for you and the children.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	Windigo	Windigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | must | I | Windigo |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location windigo=Theme |
| 2 | **bother** | future | Windigo | us |  |  | winter |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **starve** | future | we |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **hunt** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | camp | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at camp=Location |
| 6 | **watch out** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for you=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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