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title: wiske·djak wi·′egiskenda‵go zi′gobαn igi·′bi· Wiske·djak was always… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: wiske·djak wi·′egiskenda‵go zi′gobαn igi·′bi· Wiske·djak was always doing mischief, it is said, in his lifetime Who acts: wiske, djak. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., with its dependency tree and the
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 1

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wiske·djak wi·′egiskenda‵go zi′gobαn igi·′bi· Wiske·djak was always doing mischief, it is said, in his lifetime

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**Who acts:** wiske, djak · **What happens:** go, do, say · **To what, where:** zi, mischief, djak, lifetime · **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, Timiskaming Algonquin Text.. 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:pg66509:8:1
# text = wiske·djak wi·′egiskenda‵go zi′gobαn igi·′bi· Wiske·djak was always doing mischief, it is said, in his lifetime
1	wiske	wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	egiskenda	egiskenda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	zi	zi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	gobαn	gobαn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
13	igi	igi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bi	bi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
24	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | wiske | zi and ′ bi |  |  |  | Wiske *obl*; ′ egiskenda ‵ *nsubj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location zi=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive | djak | mischief |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | djak |  | wiske's lifetime |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in lifetime=Manner |

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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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