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title: The young men put her overboard at what is now Ground Hog Point, whi… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The young men put her overboard at what is now Ground Hog Point, which took its name from her, for she was called “Kuk-oh-chees,” “The Ground Hog.” Who acts: young men, Hog Point, canoe. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and t
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 17

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The young men put her overboard at what is now Ground Hog Point, which took its name from her, for she was called “Kuk-oh-chees,” “The Ground Hog.”

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**Who acts:** young men, Hog Point, canoe · **What happens:** put, grind, take, call, name · **To what, where:** woman, Hog Point, name · **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 men, Hog Point, canoe), 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:pg76755:12:17
# text = The young men put her overboard at what is now Ground Hog Point, which took its name from her, for she was called “Kuk-oh-chees,” “The Ground Hog.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	Ground	grind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	Hog	Hog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Point	Point	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Kuk	Kuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	chees	chee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Ground	Ground	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Hog	Hog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the young men |  | woman |  |  | overboard *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 2 | **grind** | present · passive |  | Hog Point |  |  | now | what *nsubj:pass* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | Hog Point | canoe's name |  |  |  | from woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | the Ground Hog *obl*; Kuk and chees *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** |  | canoe |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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