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title: The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying al… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying all over and she saw two great, big men biting each other and hitting each other with great, big trees, and also with their hands. Who acts: wife, trees, two great big men. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wi
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 7

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The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying all over and she saw two great, big men biting each other and hitting each other with great, big trees, and also with their hands.

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**Who acts:** wife, trees, two great big men · **What happens:** listen, hear, fly, see, bite, hit · **To what, where:** trees, two great big men, each

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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 (wife, trees, two great big men), 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:pg76755:15:7
# text = The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying all over and she saw two great, big men biting each other and hitting each other with great, big trees, and also with their hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	24	obj	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	28	obj	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the wife |  |  |  | while |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | wife | trees |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | wife | two great big men |  |  |  | with trees's hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bite** | gerund | two great big men *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
| 6 | **hit** | gerund | two great big men *not said here* | each |  |  |  | with great big trees | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with tree=Instrument |

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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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