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title: The night came and this man and wife watched nearly all night, till… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The night came and this man and wife watched nearly all night, till about daylight they heard an owl and some other kind of bird. Who acts: night, man. 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
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 6

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The night came and this man and wife watched nearly all night, till about daylight they heard an owl and some other kind of bird.

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**Who acts:** night, man · **What happens:** come, watch, hear · **To what, where:** owl

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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 (night, man), 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:pg76755:11:6
# text = The night came and this man and wife watched nearly all night, till about daylight they heard an owl and some other kind of bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | past | this man and wife |  |  |  | night |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | man | a owl and some other kind of bird |  |  | till daylight |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus |

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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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