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title: [3] Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mytholog… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mythology, sharing the trickster exploits of Wiske·djak. Who acts: 3 Ciŋgəbis. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 36

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\[3\] Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mythology, sharing the trickster exploits of Wiske·djak.

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**Who acts:** 3 Ciŋgəbis · **What happens:** be, know, share · **To what, where:** grebe, trickster exploits

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (3 Ciŋgəbis), 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:pg66509:21:36
# text = [3] Ciŋgəbis is the grebe, a well known character in Ojibwa mythology, sharing the trickster exploits of Wiske·djak.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grebe	grebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trickster	trickster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	·	·	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 3 Ciŋgəbis | the grebe |  |  |  | a known character in Ojibwa mythology *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **share** | gerund | 3 Ciŋgəbis *not said here* | the trickster exploits of Wiske's djak |  |  |  |  | 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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