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title: Then he made his mi·te′o wigwam with its seven poles and covered it… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made his mi·te′o wigwam with its seven poles and covered it with bark. Who acts: Windigo. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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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 17

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Then he made his mi·te′o wigwam with its seven poles and covered it with bark.

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**Who acts:** Windigo · **What happens:** make, cover · **To what, where:** mi, 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Windigo), 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:pg66509:18:17
# text = Then he made his mi·te′o wigwam with its seven poles and covered it with bark.
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	made	make	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	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	case	_	_
10	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Windigo | Windigo's mi |  |  | then | te ′ of wigwam with wigwam's seven poles *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mi=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | past | Windigo *not said here* | wigwam |  |  |  | with bark | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with bark=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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