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title: Obabika lake is called Ma′nitu Pi·pa′gi·, “Spirit Echo.” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Obabika lake is called Ma′nitu Pi·pa′gi·, “Spirit Echo.” 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, 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 8, sentence 39

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Obabika lake is called Ma′nitu Pi·pa′gi·, “Spirit Echo.”

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Obabika lake · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66509:18:39
# text = Obabika lake is called Ma′nitu Pi·pa′gi·, “Spirit Echo.”
1	Obabika	Obabika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Ma	Ma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	′	′	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nitu	nitu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	Pi	Pi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	gi	GI	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	Echo	Echo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | Obabika lake |  |  |  | Ma nitu *xcomp*; pa ′ gi *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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