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title: She disguised herself in a turkey’s skin when she wished to fly. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She disguised herself in a turkey’s skin when she wished to fly. Who acts: witch. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 3

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She disguised herself in a turkey’s skin when she wished to fly.

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** disguise, wish, fly · **To what, where:** witch

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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:pg76755:13:3
# text = She disguised herself in a turkey’s skin when she wished to fly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | past | witch | witch |  |  |  | in a turkey's skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination in skin=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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