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title: When about half way home the young man at the stern heard a bee humm… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When about half way home the young man at the stern heard a bee humming overhead and looking up he saw the bee enter the woman’s ear into her head. Who acts: young man, bee, Atherley. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 15

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When about half way home the young man at the stern heard a bee humming overhead and looking up he saw the bee enter the woman’s ear into her head.

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**Who acts:** young man, bee, Atherley · **What happens:** hear, hum, look up, see, enter · **To what, where:** bee, ear, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, bee, Atherley), 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:pg76755:12:15
# text = When about half way home the young man at the stern heard a bee humming overhead and looking up he saw the bee enter the woman’s ear into her head.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	humming	hum	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the young man at the stern | a bee |  |  |  | about half way | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hum** | gerund | a bee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | a bee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | Atherley |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **enter** | infinitive | the bee | the woman's ear |  | woman's head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination |

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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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