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title: She had the power to take these joints off. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She had the power to take these joints off. Who acts: witch, power. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 1.), sentence 5

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She had the power to take these joints off.

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**Who acts:** witch, power · **What happens:** have, take off · **To what, where:** power, joints

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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 (witch, power), 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:pg76755:12:5
# text = She had the power to take these joints off.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | witch | the power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take off** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* | this joints |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Theme |

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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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