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title: The Milky Way is bine′s·imi·k·αnʻ “bird’s path,” because it is by th… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Milky Way is bine′s·imi·k·αnʻ “bird’s path,” because it is by the Milky Way that the fowl and birds follow their northward or southward course in their migrations. Who acts: Milky Way, Way, fowl. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Spe
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 26

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The Milky Way is bine′s·imi·k·αnʻ “bird’s path,” because it is by the Milky Way that the fowl and birds follow their northward or southward course in their migrations.

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**Who acts:** Milky Way, Way, fowl · **What happens:** be, follow, migrate · **To what, where:** northward course, migrations

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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 (Milky Way, Way, fowl), 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:pg66509:10:26
# text = The Milky Way is bine′s·imi·k·αnʻ “bird’s path,” because it is by the Milky Way that the fowl and birds follow their northward or southward course in their migrations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	bine	bine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	imi	imi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	αnʻ	αnʻ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
34	northward	northward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	southward	southward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Milky Way |  |  |  |  | 's bine ′ | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Way |  |  |  |  | by the Milky Way | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | present | the fowl and birds | fowl's northward course |  | fowl's migrations |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme in migration=Trajectory |
| 4 | **migrate** |  | fowl |  |  |  |  |  | nom migration «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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