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title: Once in the autumn of the year, when the birds were ready to fly to… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once in the autumn of the year, when the birds were ready to fly to the south for the winter, a young Loon was unable to fly far enough to go with the rest of the birds. Who acts: birds, young Loon. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Spec
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 118

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Once in the autumn of the year, when the birds were ready to fly to the south for the winter, a young Loon was unable to fly far enough to go with the rest of the birds.

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**Who acts:** birds, young Loon · **What happens:** be, fly, go

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, young 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:pg66509:16:118
# text = Once in the autumn of the year, when the birds were ready to fly to the south for the winter, a young Loon was unable to fly far enough to go with the rest of the birds.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Loon	Loon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the birds |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | to the south *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to south=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | a young Loon |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive | a young Loon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | a young Loon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the rest of the birds | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary |

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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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