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title: The big river referred to is Ottawa river, Ki′tcisi·′bi “big river,”… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The big river referred to is Ottawa river, Ki′tcisi·′bi “big river,” down which Wiske·djak’s course seems to have been. Who acts: big river, course. 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 Algonqui
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin., sentence 20

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The big river referred to is Ottawa river, Ki′tcisi·′bi “big river,” down which Wiske·djak’s course seems to have been.

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**Who acts:** big river, course · **What happens:** refer, be, seem · **To what, where:** big river, Ottawa river

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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 (big river, course), 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:pg66509:4:20
# text = The big river referred to is Ottawa river, Ki′tcisi·′bi “big river,” down which Wiske·djak’s course seems to have been.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	xcomp	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tcisi	tcisi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bi	bi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
23	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	djak	djak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | the big river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the big river | Ottawa river and ′ bi |  |  |  | Ki *appos*; ′ bi *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | present | Wiske djak's course |  |  |  |  | down ′ bi | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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