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title: [40] The constellation Ursa Major is called wətci·′gan·αŋg “Fishing… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [40] The constellation Ursa Major is called wətci·′gan·αŋg “Fishing Star.” 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 93

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\[40\] The constellation Ursa Major is called wətci·′gan·αŋg “Fishing Star.”

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** constellation · **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:pg66509:21:93
# text = [40] The constellation Ursa Major is called wətci·′gan·αŋg “Fishing Star.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	constellation	constellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Ursa	Ursa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	wətci	wətci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gan	gan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	αŋg	αŋg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the constellation |  |  |  | 40 *obl*; ′ gan *obl*; wətci *xcomp*; αŋg *xcomp* | 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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