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title: The tales told by John York were told in Ojibwa to Peter York and we… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The tales told by John York were told in Ojibwa to Peter York and were written down in English by Peter York, who can read and write English. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 4

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The tales told by John York were told in Ojibwa to Peter York and were written down in English by Peter York, who can read and write English.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** tell, write down, read, write · **To what, where:** tales, Ojibwa, English · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Peter), 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:pg76755:1:4
# text = The tales told by John York were told in Ojibwa to Peter York and were written down in English by Peter York, who can read and write English.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
13	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the tales *not said here* |  |  |  | John *obl:agent* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | Peter | the tales |  | Ojibwa |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **write down** | past · passive | Peter |  |  | English |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | can | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **write** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* | English |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Theme |

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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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