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title: mi·′gucka‵djiatc wi·′djənicəna‵bi owi·′etenda‵go zi′gobαn teasing hi… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: mi·′gucka‵djiatc wi·′djənicəna‵bi owi·′etenda‵go zi′gobαn teasing his countrymen. Who acts: mi djiatc wi. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 7

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mi·′gucka‵djiatc wi·′djənicəna‵bi owi·′etenda‵go zi′gobαn teasing his countrymen.

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**Who acts:** mi djiatc wi · **What happens:** go, tease · **To what, where:** countrymen

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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 (mi djiatc wi), 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:pg66509:8:7
# text = mi·′gucka‵djiatc wi·′djənicəna‵bi owi·′etenda‵go zi′gobαn teasing his countrymen.
1	mi	MI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gucka	gucka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	djiatc	djiatc	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	djənicəna	djənicəna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bi	bi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	owi	owi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	etenda	etenda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	zi	zi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	′	′	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	gobαn	gobαn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | mi djiatc wi |  |  |  |  | ′ gobαn; etenda ‵ *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tease** | gerund | mi djiatc wi *not said here* | ‵'s countrymen |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryman=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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