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title: When this is heard, it is understood as an omen that some friend wil… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When this is heard, it is understood as an omen that some friend will be lost. Who acts: omen. 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 clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 7

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When this is heard, it is understood as an omen that some friend will be lost.

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**Who acts:** omen · **What happens:** hear, understand, lose · **To what, where:** this, noise, friend

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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 (omen), 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:pg66509:10:7
# text = When this is heard, it is understood as an omen that some friend will be lost.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **understand** | present · passive |  | noise |  |  |  | as a omen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as omen=Attribute |
| 3 | **lose** | future · passive | a omen *not said here* | some friend |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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