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title: Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserv… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserve and had taken another woman with him, which was a very bad thing to do. Who acts: bad man. 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 3

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Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserve and had taken another woman with him, which was a very bad thing to do.

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**Who acts:** bad man · **What happens:** be, leave, take, do · **To what, where:** bad man, wife, Reserve, woman, bad thing

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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: who acts (bad man), 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:pg76755:14:3
# text = Amongst this party was a bad man who had left his wife on the Reserve and had taken another woman with him, which was a very bad thing to do.
1	Amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a bad man and a bad thing |  |  |  | amongst this party | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | a bad man and a bad thing | Peter's wife |  | the Reserve |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme on reserve=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | a bad man and a bad thing *not said here* |  | another woman |  |  | with Peter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a bad man and a bad thing | a bad thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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