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title: (2) Wiske·djak Kills the Bear and Gets his Head Fastened in the Skull. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: (2) Wiske·djak Kills the Bear and Gets his Head Fastened in the Skull. Who acts: Wiske djak, Gets. 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 34

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(2) Wiske·djak Kills the Bear and Gets his Head Fastened in the Skull.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak, Gets · **What happens:** kill, fasten · **To what, where:** Bear, Skull

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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, Gets), 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:pg66509:5:34
# text = (2) Wiske·djak Kills the Bear and Gets his Head Fastened in the Skull.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Gets	Get	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Skull	Skull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Wiske djak | the Bear |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | Gets |  |  | the Skull |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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