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title: An Ojibwa man and wife and one child were out hunting away back in t… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: An Ojibwa man and wife and one child were out hunting away back in the woods and one day the man said to his wife, “We are going to have trouble now. Who acts: Ojibwa man, man, We. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with its dependency tree and t
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 2

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An Ojibwa man and wife and one child were out hunting away back in the woods and one day the man said to his wife, “We are going to have trouble now.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa man, man, We · **What happens:** hunt away, say, go, have · **To what, where:** woods, wife, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwa man, man, We), 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:pg76755:11:2
# text = An Ojibwa man and wife and one child were out hunting away back in the woods and one day the man said to his wife, “We are going to have trouble now.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt away** | past · progressive | a Ojibwa man and wife and one child |  |  | the woods |  | away *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  | child's wife |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | trouble |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |

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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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