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title: He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them their food which he had brought back for them. Who acts: djak. 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 pragma
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 149

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He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them their food which he had brought back for them.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** clean up, wash, dry, give, bring back · **To what, where:** young ones, partridges, food

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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 (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:pg66509:6:149
# text = He cleaned the young ones up, washed and dried them, and gave them their food which he had brought back for them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean up** | past | djak | the young ones |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** | participle | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dry** | participle | djak *not said here* | partridges *= partridge* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
| 4 | **give** | past | djak *not said here* |  | partridges *= partridge* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring back** | past · perfect · passive |  | partridges's food |  |  |  | for partridges *= partridge*; which *nsubj:pass*; djak *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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