---
title: [2] A secondary hero personage here is Ci′ŋgəbis, the Horned Grebe (… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] A secondary hero personage here is Ci′ŋgəbis, the Horned Grebe (Colymbus auritus). Who acts: secondary hero personage. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., with its dependency tr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/) / [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/) / 12

# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[2\] A secondary hero personage here is Ci′ŋgəbis, the Horned Grebe (Colymbus auritus).

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** secondary hero personage · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Ci

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secondary hero personage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:4:12
# text = [2] A secondary hero personage here is Ci′ŋgəbis, the Horned Grebe (Colymbus auritus).
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Ci	Ci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ŋgəbis	ŋgəbis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Grebe	Grebe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Colymbus	Colymbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	auritus	auritus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a secondary hero personage | Ci and ŋgəbis |  |  |  | 2 *discourse*; ŋgəbis *conj*; the Horned Grebe *appos* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/13/)
- ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/)