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description: This personage while being human possesses certain supernatural powers, one of them being, that whoever or whatever he addressed had to answer him. Who acts: personage. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 12

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This personage while being human possesses certain supernatural powers, one of them being, that whoever or whatever he addressed had to answer him.

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**Who acts:** personage · **What happens:** be, possess, address, have, answer · **To what, where:** certain supernatural powers, whoever, personage

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (personage), 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:pg76755:1:12
# text = This personage while being human possesses certain supernatural powers, one of them being, that whoever or whatever he addressed had to answer him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
6	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | this personage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | human *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | present | this personage | certain supernatural powers |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | whoever |  |  |  | whatever *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **address** | past | personage |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | personage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | personage *not said here* |  | personage |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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:** «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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