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title: ki·′bəba‵ma·‵dəzitc e′ji· ani′cənabe·ka‵nik ki·bəba′ndə going about… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ki·′bəba‵ma·‵dəzitc e′ji· ani′cənabe·ka‵nik ki·bəba′ndə going about during his life wherever there were Indians. Who acts: ji, bəba ndə. 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 t
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 5

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ki·′bəba‵ma·‵dəzitc e′ji· ani′cənabe·ka‵nik ki·bəba′ndə going about during his life wherever there were Indians.

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**Who acts:** ji, bəba ndə · **What happens:** ′, go about, be · **To what, where:** Indians, ki

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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 (ji, bəba ndə), 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:pg66509:8:5
# text = ki·′bəba‵ma·‵dəzitc e′ji· ani′cənabe·ka‵nik ki·bəba′ndə going about during his life wherever there were Indians.
1	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bəba	bəba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	‵	‵	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dəzitc	dəzitc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	e	e	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ji	JI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	ani	ani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cənabe	cənabe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	‵	‵	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	nik	nik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bəba	bəba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ndə	ndə	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	during	during	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **′** |  | ji |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go about** | gerund | bəba ndə *not said here* |  |  |  | during ji's life | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Indians |  |  |  |  | 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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