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title: So these two boys used to play around, shooting bows and arrows for… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So these two boys used to play around, shooting bows and arrows for fun, just as the Ojibwa boys do now. Who acts: two boys, Ojibwa boys. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, with 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 133

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So these two boys used to play around, shooting bows and arrows for fun, just as the Ojibwa boys do now.

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**Who acts:** two boys, Ojibwa boys · **What happens:** use, play around, shoot, do · **To what, where:** bows

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two boys, Ojibwa boys), 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:pg66509:16:133
# text = So these two boys used to play around, shooting bows and arrows for fun, just as the Ojibwa boys do now.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **use** | past | this two boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play around** | to-infinitive | this two boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shoot** | gerund | this two boys *not said here* | bows and arrows |  |  |  | for fun | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | the Ojibwa boys |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «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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