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title: He saw the flocks of birds rising in the sky and flying overhead for… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the flocks of birds rising in the sky and flying overhead for the south to where it is warmer. Who acts: djak, birds, south. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 45

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He saw the flocks of birds rising in the sky and flying overhead for the south to where it is warmer.

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**Who acts:** djak, birds, south · **What happens:** see, rise, fly, be · **To what, where:** flocks, sky

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak, birds, south), 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:pg66509:6:45
# text = He saw the flocks of birds rising in the sky and flying overhead for the south to where it is warmer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | djak | the flocks of birds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | birds *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the south; overhead *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | south |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

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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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