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title: It also just happened that an Indian was out hunting that way and tr… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It also just happened that an Indian was out hunting that way and tracking deer. Who acts: It. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 11

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It also just happened that an Indian was out hunting that way and tracking deer.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** happen out, hunt, track · **To what, where:** way, deer

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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:pg76755:16:11
# text = It also just happened that an Indian was out hunting that way and tracking deer.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tracking	track	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **happen out** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund |  | that way |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **track** | gerund |  | deer |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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