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title: First they saw White Duck (wa′bəci·p). — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: First they saw White Duck (wa′bəci·p). Who acts: girls. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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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 82

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First they saw White Duck (wa′bəci·p).

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**Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** White Duck

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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 (girls), 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:pg66509:14:82
# text = First they saw White Duck (wa′bəci·p).
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Duck	Duck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wa	wa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bəci	bəci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | girls *= girl* | White Duck |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=Stimulus |

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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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