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title: They recognized Wiske·djak by his antics and thought he was trying t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They recognized Wiske·djak by his antics and thought he was trying to play some trick on them, so they laughed about it and quietly paddled up close to him. Who acts: Indians, name. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cyc
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 185

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They recognized Wiske·djak by his antics and thought he was trying to play some trick on them, so they laughed about it and quietly paddled up close to him.

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**Who acts:** Indians, name · **What happens:** recognize, think, try, play, laugh, paddle up · **To what, where:** Wiske, trick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Indians, name), 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:pg66509:5:185
# text = They recognized Wiske·djak by his antics and thought he was trying to play some trick on them, so they laughed about it and quietly paddled up close to him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	antics	antic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | Indians *= indian* | Wiske |  |  |  | by name's antics | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | past · progressive | name |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | name *not said here* | some trick |  |  |  | on Indians *= indian* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | about trick | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **paddle up** | participle | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close, quietly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **antic** |  | name |  |  |  |  |  | nom antic «act 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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