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title: The constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear or Dipper) is called wədji·… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear or Dipper) is called wədji·′g “fisher” or “black cat” (Mustela pennanti). A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 13

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The constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear or Dipper) is called wədji·′g “fisher” or “black cat” (Mustela pennanti).

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** constellation · **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 Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66509:10:13
# text = The constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear or Dipper) is called wədji·′g “fisher” or “black cat” (Mustela pennanti).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constellation	constellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Ursa	Ursa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Dipper	Dipper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	wədji	wədji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Mustela	Mustela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	pennanti	pennanti	X	AFX	_	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the constellation |  |  |  | wədji *xcomp*; ′ g or black cat *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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