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title: ogi·′nəkwe‵ʻtaʻgonʻ i·gαno′nac mi·′sαmini‵k teba′dji·mα‵k would repl… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ogi·′nəkwe‵ʻtaʻgonʻ i·gαno′nac mi·′sαmini‵k teba′dji·mα‵k would reply to him when he spoke. Who acts: i, k. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., 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, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 18

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ogi·′nəkwe‵ʻtaʻgonʻ i·gαno′nac mi·′sαmini‵k teba′dji·mα‵k would reply to him when he spoke.

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**Who acts:** i, k · **What happens:** ·, reply, speak · **To what, where:** gαno, dji, ‵ ʻtaʻgonʻ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (i, k), 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:pg66509:8:18
# text = ogi·′nəkwe‵ʻtaʻgonʻ i·gαno′nac mi·′sαmini‵k teba′dji·mα‵k would reply to him when he spoke.
1	ogi	ogi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	nəkwe	nəkwe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ʻtaʻgonʻ	ʻtaʻgonʻ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	·	·	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	gαno	gαno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	nac	nac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	sαmini	sαmini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	k	thousand	NUM	CD	Abbr=Yes|NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	teba	teba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	dji	dji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	mα	mα	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **·** | present | i | gαno |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | would | k |  | dji |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | k |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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