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title: And his use of the words “great big” means a giant such as “a great… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And his use of the words “great big” means a giant such as “a great big man,” a giant. Who acts: use, York. 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 19

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And his use of the words “great big” means a giant such as “a great big man,” a giant.

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**Who acts:** use, York · **What happens:** mean, use · **To what, where:** words

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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 (use, York), 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:pg76755:1:19
# text = And his use of the words “great big” means a giant such as “a great big man,” a giant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | York's use of the words |  |  |  |  | a giant great big man *ccomp* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** |  | York | the words |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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