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title: The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way off. Who acts: night, 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 6

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The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way off.

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**Who acts:** night, man · **What happens:** come, go out, meet · **To what, where:** 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 (night, 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:pg76755:15:6
# text = The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way off.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wintigo	Wintigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | the Wintigo |  |  |  | a little way *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wintigo=Co-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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