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title: They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all kinds of birds, and Ciŋgəbis [3] was there too. Who acts: kinds. 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 pra
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 22

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They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all kinds of birds, and Ciŋgəbis \[3\] was there too.

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**Who acts:** kinds · **What happens:** mix up, be · **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 (kinds), 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:pg66509:6:22
# text = They got well mixed up before long—the geese, ducks, loons, and all kinds of birds, and Ciŋgəbis [3] was there too.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	loons	loon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advcl	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | past · passive |  | Ducks *= duck* |  |  |  | the geese and ducks and loons *obl*; long, well *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | all kinds of birds  Ciŋgəbis |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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