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title: Soon the water began to go, and Wiske·djak lingered about, waiting f… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the water began to go, and Wiske·djak lingered about, waiting for it to get low enough to get at the beaver. Who acts: water. 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 pragm
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 14

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Soon the water began to go, and Wiske·djak lingered about, waiting for it to get low enough to get at the beaver.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** begin, go, linger, wait, get · **To what, where:** Wiske djak

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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 (water), 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:pg66509:5:14
# text = Soon the water began to go, and Wiske·djak lingered about, waiting for it to get low enough to get at the beaver.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the water | Wiske djak |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **linger** | participle |  | Wiske djak *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the beaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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