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title: Some of these stories may appear crude, and others rather indefinite… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these stories may appear crude, and others rather indefinite, but I have in no way altered them, preferring to leave them as they are. Who acts: stories, I. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 6

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Some of these stories may appear crude, and others rather indefinite, but I have in no way altered them, preferring to leave them as they are.

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**Who acts:** stories, I · **What happens:** appear, have, alter, prefer, leave, be · **To what, where:** crude, stories, way

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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 (stories, I), 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:pg76755:1:6
# text = Some of these stories may appear crude, and others rather indefinite, but I have in no way altered them, preferring to leave them as they are.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	crude	crude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	altered	alter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	preferring	prefer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | may | some stories | crude |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crude=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **alter** | past | I *not said here* | stories *= story* |  | no way |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **prefer** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **does** | present | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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