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title: Wətα′gwanobi·‵s·an “mist from the water” (?). — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wətα′gwanobi·‵s·an “mist from the water” (?). 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 17

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Wətα′gwanobi·‵s·an “mist from the water” (?).

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**To what, where:** Wətα

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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:pg66509:19:17
# text = Wətα′gwanobi·‵s·an “mist from the water” (?).
1	Wətα	Wətα	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	gwanobi	gwanobi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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