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title: This big Black Bear used to go on the deer runways and catch a deer… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This big Black Bear used to go on the deer runways and catch a deer and eat him up, and the Lynx used to watch the Black Bear climb up in a tree and jump on the deer as they passed along the runways, which they had in the winter months, and which was an easy thing for a big black bear to do. Who act
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 4

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This big Black Bear used to go on the deer runways and catch a deer and eat him up, and the Lynx used to watch the Black Bear climb up in a tree and jump on the deer as they passed along the runways, which they had in the winter months, and which was an easy thing for a big black bear to do.

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**Who acts:** This, Lynx, big Black Bear, runways · **What happens:** bear, use, go, catch, eat up, watch · **To what, where:** big Black Bear, deer runways, deer, Bear, Black Bear, tree

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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 (This, Lynx, big Black Bear, runways), 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:pg76755:16:4
# text = This big Black Bear used to go on the deer runways and catch a deer and eat him up, and the Lynx used to watch the Black Bear climb up in a tree and jump on the deer as they passed along the runways, which they had in the winter months, and which was an easy thing for a big black bear to do.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	runways	runway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
43	along	along	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	runways	runway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obj	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
58	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
63	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
64	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | big Black Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the deer runways |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on runway=Location |
| 4 | **catch** | present |  | a deer |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 5 | **eat up** | infinitive |  | Bear |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **use** | past | the Lynx | big Black Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bear=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the Lynx *not said here* | the Black Bear |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 8 | **climb up** | present | big Black Bear |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Trajectory |
| 9 | **jump** | infinitive | big Black Bear *not said here* |  |  | the deer |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deer=Trajectory |
| 10 | **pass** | past | runways *= runway* |  |  | the runways |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along runway=Location |
| 11 | **have** | past | runways *= runway* | the runways |  |  | month |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 12 | **is a** | past |  | a easy thing |  |  |  | for a big black bear; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 13 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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