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title: Ciŋgəbis was a remarkable fellow, a wonderful diver who could stay u… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ciŋgəbis was a remarkable fellow, a wonderful diver who could stay underneath the water all day if he wanted to. Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, wonderful diver. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, with its dependency
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 48

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Ciŋgəbis was a remarkable fellow, a wonderful diver who could stay underneath the water all day if he wanted to.

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**Who acts:** Ciŋgəbis, wonderful diver · **What happens:** be, stay, want · **To what, where:** remarkable fellow, water

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciŋgəbis, wonderful diver), 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:pg66509:7:48
# text = Ciŋgəbis was a remarkable fellow, a wonderful diver who could stay underneath the water all day if he wanted to.
1	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	diver	diver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ciŋgəbis | a remarkable fellow and a wonderful diver |  |  |  | a wonderful diver *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | could | a wonderful diver |  |  | the water | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme underneath water=Location |
| 3 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Ciŋgəbis |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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