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title: Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc [15] (Tom-tit) cried ou… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc [15] (Tom-tit) cried out, “Nenebuc scabies suas edit!” Who acts: little bird, scabies suas. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, with i
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 114

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Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc \[15\] (Tom-tit) cried out, “Nenebuc scabies suas edit!”

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**Who acts:** little bird, scabies suas · **What happens:** cry out, edit · **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, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird, scabies suas), 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:pg66509:11:114
# text = Then the little bird Gitci·′gi·‵tci·gane‵cįc [15] (Tom-tit) cried out, “Nenebuc scabies suas edit!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
5	Gitci	Gitci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	gi	GI	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tci	tci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gane	gane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	‵	‵	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	cįc	cįc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tit	tit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Nenebuc	Nenebuc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	scabies	scaby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	compound	_	_
30	suas	sua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	edit	edit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the little bird |  |  |  | then | ′ gi and ‵ tci and gane cįc *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **edit** *in a quote* | present | scabies suas |  |  |  |  |  | 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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