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description: Now, once upon a time a man captured some little birds which are called ni·bənis·e “summer (guardian) birds.” Who acts: man. 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, with its dependenc
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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 95

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Now, once upon a time a man captured some little birds which are called ni·bənis·e “summer (guardian) birds.”

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** capture, call · **To what, where:** little birds · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg66509:16:95
# text = Now, once upon a time a man captured some little birds which are called ni·bənis·e “summer (guardian) birds.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bənis	bənis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | a man | some little birds |  |  | now | e *obl*; once *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | some little birds |  |  |  | bənis *obl*; ni *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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