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title: Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 15

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Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman.

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**What happens:** punish, leave, take · **To what, where:** camp, wife, woman

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76755:14:15
# text = Thus was he punished for leaving his wife and taking another woman.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | past · passive |  | camp |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | camp's wife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  |  | another woman |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination |

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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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