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title: They all kept shouting and making a great pretence to get after him,… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They all kept shouting and making a great pretence to get after him, all the time laughing at Wiske·djak and splashing with their paddles as though trying to keep up with him. Who acts: Wiske. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wis
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 191

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They all kept shouting and making a great pretence to get after him, all the time laughing at Wiske·djak and splashing with their paddles as though trying to keep up with him.

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**Who acts:** Wiske · **What happens:** keep, shout, make, get, laugh, splash · **To what, where:** great pretence, djak, Wiske

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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), 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:pg66509:5:191
# text = They all kept shouting and making a great pretence to get after him, all the time laughing at Wiske·djak and splashing with their paddles as though trying to keep up with him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	paddles	paddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Wiske |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Wiske *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Wiske *not said here* | a great pretence |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pretence=Product |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Wiske *not said here* |  |  |  | after djak |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | Wiske *not said here* | djak |  | Wiske |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **splash** | gerund | Wiske *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Wiske's paddles | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with paddle=Theme |
| 7 | **try** | gerund | Wiske *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **keep up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wiske *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with djak | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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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