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title: There was a little boy who lived with her and who had often watched… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a little boy who lived with her and who had often watched her through a hole in his blanket when she was dressing herself in this turkey skin, and thought that he would like to try it himself, so he took the turkey skin out of the bag and put it on. Who acts: little boy, bee, boy. A senten
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 6

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There was a little boy who lived with her and who had often watched her through a hole in his blanket when she was dressing herself in this turkey skin, and thought that he would like to try it himself, so he took the turkey skin out of the bag and put it on.

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**Who acts:** little boy, bee, boy · **What happens:** live, watch, dress, be, like, try · **To what, where:** bee, hole, turkey skin, 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 (little boy, bee, boy), 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:pg76755:13:6
# text = There was a little boy who lived with her and who had often watched her through a hole in his blanket when she was dressing herself in this turkey skin, and thought that he would like to try it himself, so he took the turkey skin out of the bag and put it on.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	dressing	dress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a little boy |  |  |  |  | with bee | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | past · perfect · passive |  | bee |  | a hole in boy's blanket |  | who *nsubj:pass*; often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
| 3 | **dress** | past · progressive | bee | bee |  | this turkey skin |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | think *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **like** | would | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | skin |  |  |  | boy *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer himself=Result |
| 7 | **take** | past | boy | the turkey skin |  | the bag |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme out bag=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **put on** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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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