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title: “A great big beaver,” a giant beaver, etc. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “A great big beaver,” a giant beaver, etc. 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 20

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“A great big beaver,” a giant beaver, etc.

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**To what, where:** great big beaver

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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: 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:pg76755:1:20
# text = “A great big beaver,” a giant beaver, etc.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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