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title: So he followed it up till he came to the Lynx lying dead and a littl… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he followed it up till he came to the Lynx lying dead and a little farther on he found the Big Buck dead too. Who acts: deer, Lynx. 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 13

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So he followed it up till he came to the Lynx lying dead and a little farther on he found the Big Buck dead too.

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**Who acts:** deer, Lynx · **What happens:** follow up, come, lie, find · **To what, where:** track, Lynx, dead

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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 (deer, Lynx), 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:pg76755:16:13
# text = So he followed it up till he came to the Lynx lying dead and a little farther on he found the Big Buck dead too.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
17	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
23	Buck	Buck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow up** | past | deer | track |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | deer |  |  | the Lynx |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lynx=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the Lynx *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | deer | the dead  Big Buck |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic |

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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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