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title: They also state that wild geese require a day and a night to reach L… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: They also state that wild geese require a day and a night to reach Lake Timiskaming from James bay when they migrate, thus showing the speed of the wind by comparison. Who acts: Indians, wild geese. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Spec
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 22

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They also state that wild geese require a day and a night to reach Lake Timiskaming from James bay when they migrate, thus showing the speed of the wind by comparison.

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**Who acts:** Indians, wild geese · **What happens:** state, require, reach, migrate, show · **To what, where:** Lake, James bay, speed · **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 (Indians, wild geese), 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:pg66509:10:22
# text = They also state that wild geese require a day and a night to reach Lake Timiskaming from James bay when they migrate, thus showing the speed of the wind by comparison.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	state	state	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Timiskaming	Timiskaming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	migrate	migrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | present | wild geese |  |  |  | day |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | wild geese *not said here* | Lake |  | James bay |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lake=Theme from bay=Source |
| 4 | **migrate** | present | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | the speed of the wind |  |  |  | by comparison; thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent speed=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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