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title: Then Wiske·djak climbed the tree and put his hands in between the tr… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Wiske·djak climbed the tree and put his hands in between the tree and the crotch to stop the rubbing, and when the wind blew a little the space spread and closed again. Who acts: Wiske djak, wind, little. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Fr
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 83

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Then Wiske·djak climbed the tree and put his hands in between the tree and the crotch to stop the rubbing, and when the wind blew a little the space spread and closed again.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak, wind, little · **What happens:** climb, put, stop, blow, spread, close · **To what, where:** tree, hands, rubbing

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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, wind, little), 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:pg66509:5:83
# text = Then Wiske·djak climbed the tree and put his hands in between the tree and the crotch to stop the rubbing, and when the wind blew a little the space spread and closed again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crotch	crotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Wiske djak | the tree |  |  | then | the crotch *conj* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | Wiske djak *not said here* | djak's hands |  | the tree |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in tree=Destination |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Wiske djak *not said here* | the rubbing |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rubbing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **spread** | past | a little |  |  |  |  | the space *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **close** | participle | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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