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description: [54] Then Windigo came there and Gitcikwe′we said to his wife, “We will clinch him and take him away out west where he came from.” Who acts: Windigo, Gitcikwe ′, We. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Tim
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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 19

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\[54\] Then Windigo came there and Gitcikwe′we said to his wife, “We will clinch him and take him away out west where he came from.”

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**Who acts:** Windigo, Gitcikwe ′, We · **What happens:** come, say, clinch, take away · **To what, where:** 54, wife, Windigo · **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 (Windigo, Gitcikwe ′, 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:pg66509:18:19
# text = [54] Then Windigo came there and Gitcikwe′we said to his wife, “We will clinch him and take him away out west where he came from.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	Windigo	Windigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Gitcikwe	Gitcikwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	clinch	clinch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	west	west	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Windigo | 54 |  | there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gitcikwe ′ |  | Windigo's wife |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **clinch** *in a quote* | future | We | Windigo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* | Windigo |  |  |  | away, west *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Windigo |  |  |  |  |  | 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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