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title: One of the Indians said, “Look out, it might be Wiske·djak up to som… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the Indians said, “Look out, it might be Wiske·djak up to some more of his mischief.” Who acts: Indians, creature. 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 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 73

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One of the Indians said, “Look out, it might be Wiske·djak up to some more of his mischief.”

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**Who acts:** Indians, creature · **What happens:** say, look out, be, djak up · **To what, where:** Wiske, more · **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 (Indians, creature), 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:pg66509:6:73
# text = One of the Indians said, “Look out, it might be Wiske·djak up to some more of his mischief.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	ccomp	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	djak	djak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  | One *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | might | creature | Wiske |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **djak up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | more of Wiske's mischief |  |  |  |  | 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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