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title: John York is an old man of 96 years and his Indian name is “Kitche-P… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: John York is an old man of 96 years and his Indian name is “Kitche-Penascie” or “Big Thunder.” Who acts: John. 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 7

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John York is an old man of 96 years and his Indian name is “Kitche-Penascie” or “Big Thunder.”

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** old man, Kitche

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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 (John), 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:pg76755:1:7
# text = John York is an old man of 96 years and his Indian name is “Kitche-Penascie” or “Big Thunder.”
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	96	96	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Kitche	Kitche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Penascie	Penascie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | John | a old man and John's Indian name and Kitche and Penascie or Big Thunder |  |  | year | John's Indian name *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | John *not said here* | Kitche and Penascie or Big Thunder |  |  |  | Penascie *conj*; Big Thunder *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | John |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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