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title: It is called məskwa′­bi·‵mij “red willow tree.” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is called məskwa′­bi·‵mij “red willow tree.” 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 43

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It is called məskwa′­bi·‵mij “red willow tree.”

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** bark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66509:21:43
# text = It is called məskwa′­bi·‵mij “red willow tree.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	məskwa	məskwa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	­	­	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bi	bi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mij	mij	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | bark |  |  |  | məskwa ′ *xcomp*; ­ bi *xcomp*; ‵ mij *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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