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title: There he saw his scabs sticking to the rocks where he had stuck, som… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: There he saw his scabs sticking to the rocks where he had stuck, some large, some small. Who acts: Wiske, scabs. 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 cla
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 171

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There he saw his scabs sticking to the rocks where he had stuck, some large, some small.

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**Who acts:** Wiske, scabs · **What happens:** see, stick · **To what, where:** scabs

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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 (Wiske, scabs), 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:pg66509:6:171
# text = There he saw his scabs sticking to the rocks where he had stuck, some large, some small.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Wiske | Wiske's scabs |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scab=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stick** | gerund | Wiske's scabs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the rocks | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to rock=Co-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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