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title: A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitci… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitcikwe′we was back again from his trip out west. Who acts: little while, Gitcikwe ′, ′. 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.
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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 22

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A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitcikwe′we was back again from his trip out west.

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**Who acts:** little while, Gitcikwe ′, ′ · **What happens:** start, move, be, trip · **To what, where:** trip

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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 (little while, Gitcikwe ′, ′), 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:pg66509:18:22
# text = A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitcikwe′we was back again from his trip out west.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	Gitcikwe	Gitcikwe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	west	west	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | a little while after this |  |  |  |  | the wigwam *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | a little while after this *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Gitcikwe ′ |  |  | ′'s trip | again | we *nsubj*; back *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **trip** |  | ′ |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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