--- title: He fell and the other tried to run away; before he got away I shot h… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: He fell and the other tried to run away; before he got away I shot him dead and started to run back towards our country.” Who acts: gun, other, I. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/11/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/11/) / 30 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 30 He fell and the other tried to run away; before he got away I shot him dead and started to run back towards our country.” **Who acts:** gun, other, I · **What happens:** fall, try, run away, get away, shoot, start · **To what, where:** gun, country 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 (gun, other, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:11:30 # text = He fell and the other tried to run away; before he got away I shot him dead and started to run back towards our country.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | gun | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | the other | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **run away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the other *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get away** | past | gun | | | | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **shoot** | past | I | gun | | | | dead *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **start** | past | gun *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **run back** | to-infinitive | gun *not said here* | | | our country | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards country=Destination | 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. **Text:** «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. 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