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title: There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their neck… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their necks, and he called out, “Wiske·djak is killing you! Who acts: djak, Wiske 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 tre
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 28

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There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their necks, and he called out, “Wiske·djak is killing you!

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**Who acts:** djak, Wiske djak · **What happens:** see, go, wring, call out, kill · **To what, where:** Wiske, dancers, necks, you · **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 (djak, Wiske 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:pg66509:6:28
# text = There he saw Wiske·djak going among the dancers, wringing their necks, and he called out, “Wiske·djak is killing you!
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	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	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 | djak | Wiske |  | there |  | djak *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | djak *not said here* |  |  | the dancers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among dancer=Location |
| 3 | **wring** | gerund | djak *not said here* | dancers's necks |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: express* | past | djak |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Wiske djak | you |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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