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title: The Northern Lights are called wa′t·e “illumination” (reduplicated w… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Northern Lights are called wa′t·e “illumination” (reduplicated wawa′t·e is “lightning” from thunder). Who acts: e. 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 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 18

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The Northern Lights are called wa′t·e “illumination” (reduplicated wawa′t·e is “lightning” from thunder).

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**Who acts:** e · **What happens:** call, reduplicate, be · **To what, where:** Northern Lights, lightning, thunder · **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: who acts (e), 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:pg66509:10:18
# text = The Northern Lights are called wa′t·e “illumination” (reduplicated wawa′t·e is “lightning” from thunder).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	wa	WA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	illumination	illumination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	reduplicated	reduplicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	wawa	wawa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the Northern Lights |  |  |  | wa ′ t *xcomp*; e and illumination and reduplicated wawa and t and lightning *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **reduplicate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | e | lightning |  | thunder |  |  | tree rules |

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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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