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title: Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese out of the sand and play a trick on him.” Who acts: men, We. 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 pragmat
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 80

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Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese out of the sand and play a trick on him.”

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**Who acts:** men, We · **What happens:** say, go up, take, play · **To what, where:** ducks, sand, trick · **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 (men, We), 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:pg66509:6:80
# text = Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese out of the sand and play a trick on him.”
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	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 | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** *in a quote* | future | We |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* | Wiske djak's ducks and geese |  | the sand |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent duck=Theme out sand=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* | a trick |  |  |  | on Wiske | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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