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title: When robins (gwi·′ckwe) sing noticeably during the day it is a sign… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When robins (gwi·′ckwe) sing noticeably during the day it is a sign of coming rain. Who acts: robins, ckwe, sign. 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 25

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When robins (gwi·′ckwe) sing noticeably during the day it is a sign of coming rain.

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**Who acts:** robins, ckwe, sign · **What happens:** sing, be, come · **To what, where:** sign, rain

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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 (robins, ckwe, sign), 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:pg66509:19:25
# text = When robins (gwi·′ckwe) sing noticeably during the day it is a sign of coming rain.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gwi	gwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ckwe	ckwe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	noticeably	noticeably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | robins |  |  |  |  | noticeably *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ckwe | a sign |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | a sign *not said here* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rain=Theme |

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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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