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title: One day when all the people were having a bee to hoe corn she went t… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when all the people were having a bee to hoe corn she went to the bee, leaving her turkey skin in her bag (medicine bag) at her home. Who acts: people, bee. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 5

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One day when all the people were having a bee to hoe corn she went to the bee, leaving her turkey skin in her bag (medicine bag) at her home.

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**Who acts:** people, bee · **What happens:** have, hoe, go, leave · **To what, where:** bee, corn, turkey skin, bag

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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 (people, bee), 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:pg76755:13:5
# text = One day when all the people were having a bee to hoe corn she went to the bee, leaving her turkey skin in her bag (medicine bag) at her home.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hoe	hoe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · progressive | all people | a bee |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hoe** | to-infinitive | a bee *not said here* | corn |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | bee | corn *not said here* |  |  |  | to the bee | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corn=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | bee's turkey skin |  | bee's bag |  | at bee's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme in bag=Location |

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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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