---
title: In these myths the scene of action commences with Dumoine lake, Ki·w… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: In these myths the scene of action commences with Dumoine lake, Ki·we·′goma “Turn-back lake.” Who acts: scene, we. 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 tree and t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/15/)

<!-- 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/) / 15

# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In these myths the scene of action commences with Dumoine lake, Ki·we·′goma “Turn-back lake.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** scene, we · **What happens:** commence, goma · **To what, where:** myths

<!-- .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 (scene, we), 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:pg66509:4:15
# text = In these myths the scene of action commences with Dumoine lake, Ki·we·′goma “Turn-back lake.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	commences	commence	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Dumoine	Dumoine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	′	′	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	goma	goma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | present | the scene of action |  |  | this myths |  | with Dumoine lake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lake=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **goma** |  | we |  |  |  |  | back lake *conj* | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/16/)
- ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/4/)