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title: The legs they stuck back in the sand just as Wiske·djak had placed t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The legs they stuck back in the sand just as Wiske·djak had placed them. Who acts: legs. 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 every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 83

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The legs they stuck back in the sand just as Wiske·djak had placed them.

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**Who acts:** legs · **What happens:** stick back, place · **To what, where:** sand, Wiske djak

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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 (legs), 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:pg66509:6:83
# text = The legs they stuck back in the sand just as Wiske·djak had placed them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick back** | past | the legs |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sand=Destination |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | Wiske djak |  |  |  | legs *= leg* *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination |

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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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