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title: She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them and exposed h… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them and exposed her anus in contempt and otherwise made fun of them. Who acts: woman, Ojibwas. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 4

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She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them and exposed her anus in contempt and otherwise made fun of them.

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**Who acts:** woman, Ojibwas · **What happens:** see, come, turn back, expose, make · **To what, where:** Ojibwas, woman, anus, contempt, fun

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Ojibwas), 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:pg76755:10:4
# text = She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them and exposed her anus in contempt and otherwise made fun of them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ojibwas	ojibwa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	exposed	expose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	anus	anus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | woman | the Ojibwas |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ojibwa=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the Ojibwas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn back** | past | woman *not said here* | woman | Ojibwas *= ojibwa* |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to they=Destination |
| 4 | **expose** | past | woman *not said here* | woman's anus |  | contempt |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anus=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | participle | woman *not said here* | fun of Ojibwas |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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