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title: Nanabush seems to have been a joker and a scapegoat at times, and is… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nanabush seems to have been a joker and a scapegoat at times, and is reputed to be alive yet. Who acts: Nanabush. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 13

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Nanabush seems to have been a joker and a scapegoat at times, and is reputed to be alive yet.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush · **What happens:** seem, be, repute · **To what, where:** joker

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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 (Nanabush), 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:pg76755:1:13
# text = Nanabush seems to have been a joker and a scapegoat at times, and is reputed to be alive yet.
1	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joker	joker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scapegoat	scapegoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	reputed	repute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Nanabush |  |  |  | time |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect | Nanabush *not said here* | a joker and a scapegoat |  |  |  | a scapegoat *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **repute** | present · passive | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | 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:** «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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