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title: All of Wiske·djak’s pranks were done at different times long ago, no… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: All of Wiske·djak’s pranks were done at different times long ago, not all one after another at one time, as it might seem. Who acts: it. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 15

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All of Wiske·djak’s pranks were done at different times long ago, not all one after another at one time, as it might seem.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** do, seem · **To what, where:** pranks

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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:pg66509:9:15
# text = All of Wiske·djak’s pranks were done at different times long ago, not all one after another at one time, as it might seem.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | all djak's pranks |  |  | time | all one after another at one time *parataxis*; ago *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **seem** | might | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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