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title: This Indian was so full of mi·te′ also that, while he was asleep, he… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: This Indian was so full of mi·te′ also that, while he was asleep, he heard Windigo passing overhead with a great moaning noise as if he were in pain. Who acts: This, ′, Windigo. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lor
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 27

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This Indian was so full of mi·te′ also that, while he was asleep, he heard Windigo passing overhead with a great moaning noise as if he were in pain.

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**Who acts:** This, ′, Windigo · **What happens:** be, hear, pass, moan · **To what, where:** Windigo, pain

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, ′, Windigo), 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:pg66509:18:27
# text = This Indian was so full of mi·te′ also that, while he was asleep, he heard Windigo passing overhead with a great moaning noise as if he were in pain.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	Windigo	Windigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | of mi and te ′; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | ′ |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | ′ | Windigo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | Windigo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a great moaning noise; overhead *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **moan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | ′ |  |  | pain |  |  | 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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