--- title: Under date of August 30, 1913, Mr. Neil C. Fergusson, Timagami Fire… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics description: Under date of August 30, 1913, Mr. Neil C. Fergusson, Timagami Fire Ranger, wrote from Bear island, Lake Timagami: “While at Bear Island I met Mr. Speck, who was gathering Indian lore and legends for the Victoria Memorial Museum. Who acts: Neil C., Bear Island. 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Fergusson, Timagami Fire Ranger, wrote from Bear island, Lake Timagami: “While at Bear Island I met Mr. Speck, who was gathering Indian lore and legends for the Victoria Memorial Museum. **Who acts:** Neil C., Bear Island · **What happens:** write, meet, gather · **To what, where:** date, Speck, Indian lore This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on 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 (Neil C., Bear Island), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66509:20:3 # text = Under date of August 30, 1913, Mr. Neil C. Fergusson, Timagami Fire Ranger, wrote from Bear island, Lake Timagami: “While at Bear Island I met Mr. Speck, who was gathering Indian lore and legends for the Victoria Memorial Museum. 1 Under under ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 1913 1913 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 10 Neil Neil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 C. C. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 12 Fergusson Fergusson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Timagami Timagami PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 Ranger Ranger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 Timagami Timagami PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 While while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 33 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:desc _ _ 34 Speck Speck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 gathering gather VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 Memorial Memorial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Museum Museum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Neil C. Mr. | | | date of 30 August | | from Bear island and Lake | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from island=Material | | 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | Bear Island | Speck Mr. | | | | I *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speck=Co-Agent | | 3 | **gather** *in a quote* | past · progressive | | Indian lore and legends | | | | for the Victoria Memorial Museum; who *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lore=Theme for museum=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/20/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/20/4/) - ↑ back to [Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/20/)