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title: “Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge. Who acts: little Partridge. 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 122

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“Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge.

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**Who acts:** little Partridge · **What happens:** frighten, answer · **To what, where:** ′ sįs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little Partridge), 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:pg66509:6:122
# text = “Kuckuŋge·′sįs, suddenly frightened!” answered the little Partridge.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kuckuŋge	Kuckuŋge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sįs	sį	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Partridge	Partridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** *in a quote* | participle |  | ′ sįs *not said here* |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the little Partridge |  |  |  |  | Kuckuŋge and ′ sįs *nsubj* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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