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title: Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spo… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spoke to it, no matter what it might be. Who acts: Wiske djak, anything, 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 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 56

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Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spoke to it, no matter what it might be.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak, anything, djak · **What happens:** have, make, answer, speak · **To what, where:** power, anything, djak · **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 (Wiske djak, anything, 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:pg66509:6:56
# text = Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spoke to it, no matter what it might be.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Wiske djak | the power |  |  | now | no matter *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Wiske djak *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | anything *not said here* |  | djak |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | djak |  | power |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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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