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title: The whippoorwill (wa′hone·‵s·i) is very rarely heard in Bear island,… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The whippoorwill (wa′hone·‵s·i) is very rarely heard in Bear island, although the bird frequents some parts of the lake. Who acts: bird. 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 pragm
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 21

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The whippoorwill (wa′hone·‵s·i) is very rarely heard in Bear island, although the bird frequents some parts of the lake.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** hear, frequent · **To what, where:** whippoorwill, Bear island, parts

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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 (bird), 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:pg66509:19:21
# text = The whippoorwill (wa′hone·‵s·i) is very rarely heard in Bear island, although the bird frequents some parts of the lake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whippoorwill	whippoorwill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	wa	wa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hone	hone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	frequents	frequent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · passive |  | the whippoorwill  i |  | Bear island |  | rarely *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **frequent** | present | the bird | some parts of the lake |  |  |  |  | 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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