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title: Then Wiske·djak began to rub the cranberry juice into the Bear’s eyes. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Wiske·djak began to rub the cranberry juice into the Bear’s eyes. Who acts: Wiske. 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 57

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Then Wiske·djak began to rub the cranberry juice into the Bear’s eyes.

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**Who acts:** Wiske · **What happens:** begin, rub · **To what, where:** cranberry juice, eyes

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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:pg66509:5:57
# text = Then Wiske·djak began to rub the cranberry juice into the Bear’s eyes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cranberry	cranberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Wiske |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rub** | to-infinitive | Wiske *not said here* | the cranberry juice |  | the Bear's eyes |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Theme into eye=Destination |

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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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