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title: So poor Wiske·djak tumbled down the cliff, banging and sliding on hi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So poor Wiske·djak tumbled down the cliff, banging and sliding on his hind-quarters, and scraped all the scabs off his burns. Who acts: poor Wiske, cliff, Wiske. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, with it
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 159

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So poor Wiske·djak tumbled down the cliff, banging and sliding on his hind-quarters, and scraped all the scabs off his burns.

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**Who acts:** poor Wiske, cliff, Wiske · **What happens:** tumble down, bang, slide, scrape, burn · **To what, where:** cliff, hind quarters, scabs, burns

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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 (poor Wiske, cliff, 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:pg66509:6:159
# text = So poor Wiske·djak tumbled down the cliff, banging and sliding on his hind-quarters, and scraped all the scabs off his burns.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	banging	bang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	scraped	scrape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tumble down** | participle | poor Wiske and djak | the cliff |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cliff=Theme |
| 2 | **bang** | gerund | the cliff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slide** | gerund | the cliff *not said here* |  |  | Wiske's hind quarters |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on quarter=Trajectory |
| 4 | **scrape** | past |  | all scabs |  | Wiske's burns |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scab=Theme off burn=Trajectory |
| 5 | **burn** |  | Wiske |  |  |  |  |  | nom burn «state intransitive»: poss=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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