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title: The name Wiske·djak and its variants seem to be more or less charact… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Wiske·djak and its variants seem to be more or less characteristic of the Algonquin bands, in which respect they resemble the Cree. Who acts: variants, djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Ti
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 11

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The name Wiske·djak and its variants seem to be more or less characteristic of the Algonquin bands, in which respect they resemble the Cree.

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**Who acts:** variants, djak · **What happens:** seem, be, resemble, vary · **To what, where:** djak, more characteristic, Cree, name

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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 Timiskaming Algonquin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (variants, djak), 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:pg66509:4:11
# text = The name Wiske·djak and its variants seem to be more or less characteristic of the Algonquin bands, in which respect they resemble the Cree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
15	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	23	det	_	_
23	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Cree	Cree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | djak's variants | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme djak=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | djak's variants *not said here* | more characteristic |  |  |  | of the Algonquin bands; which respect *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resemble** | present | variants *= variant* | the Cree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **vary** |  | djak |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: 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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