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title: He spent his life going about everywhere where there were Indians, t… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent his life going about everywhere where there were Indians, to tease them and play mischief among them. Who acts: djak. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 3

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He spent his life going about everywhere where there were Indians, to tease them and play mischief among them.

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**Who acts:** djak · **What happens:** spend, go about, be, tease, play · **To what, where:** life, Indians, mischief

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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 (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:pg66509:9:3
# text = He spent his life going about everywhere where there were Indians, to tease them and play mischief among them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tease	tease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | djak | djak's life |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
| 2 | **go about** | gerund | djak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Indians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tease** | to-infinitive |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **play** | infinitive |  | mischief |  |  |  | among Indians *= indian* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=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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