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title: This is the Milky Way, which is believed to be the guide to the bird… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the Milky Way, which is believed to be the guide to the birds in their spring and autumn migrations. Who acts: This, birds. 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
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 15

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This is the Milky Way, which is believed to be the guide to the birds in their spring and autumn migrations.

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**Who acts:** This, birds · **What happens:** be, believe, migrate · **To what, where:** Milky Way, guide

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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: who acts (This, birds), 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:pg66509:19:15
# text = This is the Milky Way, which is believed to be the guide to the birds in their spring and autumn migrations.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the Milky Way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | present · passive |  | the Milky Way |  |  |  | to the birds in birds's spring migrations | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the guide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **migrate** |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | nom migration «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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