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title: [21] Abi·ndəsa′gan “something to sit or lie on the water with.” — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [21] Abi·ndəsa′gan “something to sit or lie on the water with.” 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 65

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\[21\] Abi·ndəsa′gan “something to sit or lie on the water with.”

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**What happens:** sit, lie · **To what, where:** water, 21

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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:pg66509:21:65
# text = [21] Abi·ndəsa′gan “something to sit or lie on the water with.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Abi	Abi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ndəsa	ndəsa	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	gan	gan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	appos	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on water=Location |

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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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