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title: After a few days, they made another chief, Goose (nixka′), since bot… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few days, they made another chief, Goose (nixka′), since both Loon and Ciŋgibis were dead. Who acts: people, Loon. 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 4, with its dependency 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 175

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After a few days, they made another chief, Goose (nixka′), since both Loon and Ciŋgibis were dead.

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**Who acts:** people, Loon · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** chief

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Loon), 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:pg66509:14:175
# text = After a few days, they made another chief, Goose (nixka′), since both Loon and Ciŋgibis were dead.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Goose	Goose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nixka	nixka	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	Loon	Loon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Ciŋgibis	Ciŋgibis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | people | another chief |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chief=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | both Loon and Ciŋgibis |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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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