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title: ogi·′jini‵gwuna‵dji·an wi·′djini‵cəna′binʻ i′yanotc mɔ·′jαk doing wh… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ogi·′jini‵gwuna‵dji·an wi·′djini‵cəna′binʻ i′yanotc mɔ·′jαk doing what he could teasing his countrymen Indians. Who acts: i, ′ jαk, binʻ. 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 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 3

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ogi·′jini‵gwuna‵dji·an wi·′djini‵cəna′binʻ i′yanotc mɔ·′jαk doing what he could teasing his countrymen Indians.

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**Who acts:** i, ′ jαk, binʻ · **What happens:** ′, do, tease · **To what, where:** binʻ, Indians, yanotc mɔ

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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 (i, ′ jαk, binʻ), 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:pg66509:8:3
# text = ogi·′jini‵gwuna‵dji·an wi·′djini‵cəna′binʻ i′yanotc mɔ·′jαk doing what he could teasing his countrymen Indians.
1	ogi	ogi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	jini	jini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	‵	‵	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	gwuna	gwuna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dji	dji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	djini	djini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	‵	‵	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cəna	cəna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	binʻ	binʻ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	′	′	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	yanotc	yanotc	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mɔ	mɔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	′	′	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	jαk	jαk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **′** | present | i | binʻ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | ′ jαk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tease** | could | binʻ | Indians  binʻ's countrymen |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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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