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title: So the man and wife went to work and gathered up wood and made a big… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the man and wife went to work and gathered up wood and made a big fire and burned the Wintigo to ashes. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants)., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 14

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So the man and wife went to work and gathered up wood and made a big fire and burned the Wintigo to ashes.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** go, gather up, make, burn · **To what, where:** work, wood, big fire, Wintigo

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants).. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76755:15:14
# text = So the man and wife went to work and gathered up wood and made a big fire and burned the Wintigo to ashes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Wintigo	Wintigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the man and wife |  |  | work |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **gather up** | past | the man and wife *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the man and wife *not said here* | a big fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
| 4 | **burn** | past | the man and wife *not said here* | the Wintigo |  |  |  | to ashes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wintigo=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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