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title: Northern Lights: Wase′tibik·an, “light of night.” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Northern Lights: Wase′tibik·an, “light of night.” A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore., 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, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 12

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Northern Lights: Wase′tibik·an, “light of night.”

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**What happens:** light · **To what, where:** Northern Lights, night

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. 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:pg66509:19:12
# text = Northern Lights: Wase′tibik·an, “light of night.”
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Wase	wase	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tibik	tibik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **light** *in a quote* |  |  | night |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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