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title: Wiske·djak all the time struggled ahead in great fear, expecting any… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiske·djak all the time struggled ahead in great fear, expecting any moment to be killed. Who acts: Wiske djak. 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 clau
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 192

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Wiske·djak all the time struggled ahead in great fear, expecting any moment to be killed.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak · **What happens:** struggle, expect, kill · **To what, where:** time, great fear, 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 (Wiske djak), 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:pg66509:5:192
# text = Wiske·djak all the time struggled ahead in great fear, expecting any moment to be killed.
1	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | participle |  | all time *not said here* |  | great fear |  | ahead *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | Wiske djak  all time *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive · passive | Wiske djak  all time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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