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title: The toad’s (omα′k·αki) song in the daytime has the same portent. — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The toad’s (omα′k·αki) song in the daytime has the same portent. Who acts: k αki song. 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 26

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The toad’s (omα′k·αki) song in the daytime has the same portent.

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**Who acts:** k αki song · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** same portent

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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 (k αki song), 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:pg66509:19:26
# text = The toad’s (omα′k·αki) song in the daytime has the same portent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	omα	omα	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	k	thousand	NUM	CD	Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	αki	αki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	portent	portent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | k αki song in the daytime | the same portent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portent=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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