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title: The trickster-transformer Wiske·djak “meat bird” is the personified… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The trickster-transformer Wiske·djak “meat bird” is the personified Canada Jay or “Whisky Jack” (Perisoreus sp.). Who acts: trickster transformer. 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.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 6

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The trickster-transformer Wiske·djak “meat bird” is the personified Canada Jay or “Whisky Jack” (Perisoreus sp.).

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**Who acts:** trickster transformer · **What happens:** personify, be · **To what, where:** personified Canada Jay

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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 (trickster transformer), 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:pg66509:4:6
# text = The trickster-transformer Wiske·djak “meat bird” is the personified Canada Jay or “Whisky Jack” (Perisoreus sp.).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	trickster	trickster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	transformer	transformer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	personified	personify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Jay	Jay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Whisky	Whisky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Perisoreus	Perisoreus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sp	sp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **personify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the trickster transformer and djak | the personified Canada Jay or Whisky Jack |  |  |  | Whisky Jack *conj*; Perisoreus sp *appos* | tree rules |

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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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