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title: When they were about to leave again, Ciŋgəbis shouted, “He! — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were about to leave again, Ciŋgəbis shouted, “He! Who acts: nostrils, Ciŋgəbis. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 92

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When they were about to leave again, Ciŋgəbis shouted, “He!

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**Who acts:** nostrils, Ciŋgəbis · **What happens:** be, leave, shout · **To what, where:** family

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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 (nostrils, Ciŋgəbis), 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:pg66509:7:92
# text = When they were about to leave again, Ciŋgəbis shouted, “He!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Ciŋgəbis	Ciŋgəbis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | nostrils *= nostril* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | nostrils *= nostril* *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Ciŋgəbis | family |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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