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title: (3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: (3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance. Who acts: 3. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, 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 2, sentence 1

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(3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance.

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**Who acts:** 3 · **What happens:** invite · **To what, where:** Ducks

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (3), 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:pg66509:6:1
# text = (3) Wiske·djak Invites the Ducks to a Dance.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Invites	invite	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	Ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dance	Dance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | present | 3 |  | the Ducks |  |  | to a Dance; djak *nsubj* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Recipient |

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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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