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title: Less frequently the Milky Way is called dji·ba′imi·k·αnʻ “spirit pat… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Less frequently the Milky Way is called dji·ba′imi·k·αnʻ “spirit path” over which the spirits of the dead are thought to journey. Who acts: αnʻ. 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 an
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 28

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Less frequently the Milky Way is called dji·ba′imi·k·αnʻ “spirit path” over which the spirits of the dead are thought to journey.

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**Who acts:** αnʻ · **What happens:** call, path, think · **To what, where:** Milky Way, spirits, spirit path · **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 (αnʻ), 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:pg66509:10:28
# text = Less frequently the Milky Way is called dji·ba′imi·k·αnʻ “spirit path” over which the spirits of the dead are thought to journey.
1	Less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	dji	dji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	imi	imi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	αnʻ	αnʻ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 Milky Way |  |  |  | k *obl*; dji *xcomp*; ba ′ *xcomp*; frequently *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **path** *in a quote* |  | αnʻ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the spirits of the dead |  | spirit path |  | journey *xcomp* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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