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title: One time in winter Wiske·djak was going along and fell upon an India… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time in winter Wiske·djak was going along and fell upon an Indian’s trail. Who acts: 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 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 3, sentence 3

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One time in winter Wiske·djak was going along and fell upon an Indian’s trail.

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**Who acts:** Wiske djak · **What happens:** go along, fall · **To what, where:** Indian trail

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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 (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:pg66509:7:3
# text = One time in winter Wiske·djak was going along and fell upon an Indian’s trail.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go along** | past · progressive | Wiske djak |  |  |  | time | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Wiske djak *not said here* |  |  | a Indian trail |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon trail=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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