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title: Then Wiske·djak tied it to his tail and the Muskrat started off with… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Wiske·djak tied it to his tail and the Muskrat started off with it. Who acts: Wiske djak, Muskrat. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 114

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Then Wiske·djak tied it to his tail and the Muskrat started off with it.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak, Muskrat · **What happens:** tie, start off · **To what, where:** work

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske djak, Muskrat), 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:pg66509:5:114
# text = Then Wiske·djak tied it to his tail and the Muskrat started off with it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Muskrat	Muskrat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past | Wiske djak | work |  |  | then | to djak's tail | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **start off** | past | the Muskrat |  |  |  |  | with work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with it=Subeventuality |

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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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