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title: Some time after, one of the Indians’ little children came along the… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after, one of the Indians’ little children came along the trail and saw Wiske·djak with his big face and bulging eyes sitting on the stump. Who acts: one, eyes. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 28

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Some time after, one of the Indians’ little children came along the trail and saw Wiske·djak with his big face and bulging eyes sitting on the stump.

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**Who acts:** one, eyes · **What happens:** come, see, bulge, sit · **To what, where:** trail, Wiske, eyes, stump

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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 (one, eyes), 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:pg66509:7:28
# text = Some time after, one of the Indians’ little children came along the trail and saw Wiske·djak with his big face and bulging eyes sitting on the stump.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bulging	bulge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | one of the Indians's little children |  |  | the trail | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along trail=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | one of the Indians's little children *not said here* | Wiske |  |  |  | djak with Indian's big face *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bulge** | gerund | one of the Indians's little children *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | eyes *not said here* |  |  | the stump |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location |

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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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