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title: Wiske·djak watched him a while and thought how nice it would be to k… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wiske·djak watched him a while and thought how nice it would be to kill him. 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 clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 43

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Wiske·djak watched him a while and thought how nice it would be to kill him.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak · **What happens:** watch, think, be, kill · **To what, where:** Beaver, 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:pg66509:5:43
# text = Wiske·djak watched him a while and thought how nice it would be to kill him.
1	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
14	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Wiske djak | Beaver |  |  | while |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Wiske djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive | Wiske djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Wiske djak *not said here* | djak |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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