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title: “No, not very,” answered the Lynx, because every thing living or dea… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, not very,” answered the Lynx, because every thing living or dead had to reply when Wiske·djak asked it a question. Who acts: Lynx, thing, Wiske djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, with its depen
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 11

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“No, not very,” answered the Lynx, because every thing living or dead had to reply when Wiske·djak asked it a question.

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**Who acts:** Lynx, thing, Wiske djak · **What happens:** answer, live, have, reply, ask · **To what, where:** question, Lynx

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lynx, thing, 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:pg66509:7:11
# text = “No, not very,” answered the Lynx, because every thing living or dead had to reply when Wiske·djak asked it a question.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
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	25	nsubj	_	_
25	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Lynx |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | every thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | every thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | every thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Wiske djak | a question | Lynx |  |  |  | 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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