Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 26

The Milky Way is bine′s·imi·k·αnʻ “bird’s path,” because it is by the Milky Way that the fowl and birds follow their northward or southward course in their migrations.

Who acts: Milky Way, Way, fowl · What happens: be, follow, migrate · To what, where: northward course, migrations

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milky Way, Way, fowl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Way	det
2	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Way	amod
3	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ′	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ′	cop
5	bine	bine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ′	compound
6	′	′	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	s	's	PART	Typo=Yes	6 ′	case
8	·	·	PUNCT	_	9 imi	punct
9	imi	imi	X	Foreign=Yes	6 ′	conj
10	·	·	PUNCT	_	11 k	punct
11	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imi	appos
12	·	·	PUNCT	_	13 αnʻ	punct
13	αnʻ	αnʻ	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imi	appos
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 path	punct
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 path	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 bird	case
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 αnʻ	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 imi	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 imi	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 Way	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 Way	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Way	cop
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 Way	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Way	det
25	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Way	amod
26	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 imi	nmod:unmarked
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 follow	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fowl	det
29	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 follow	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 birds	cc
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fowl	conj
32	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ′	advcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 course	nmod:poss
34	northward	northward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 course	amod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 southward	cc
36	southward	southward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 northward	conj
37	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 follow	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 migrations	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 migrations	nmod:poss
40	migrations	migration	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 follow	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ′	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Milky Way			's bine ′	tree rules
2	is	present	Way			by the Milky Way	tree rules
3	follow	present	the fowl and birds	fowl's northward course	fowl's migrations		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme in migration=Trajectory
4	migrate		fowl				nom migration «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 26