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title: The Deer started off wild and went all over the woods, but the Lynx… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Deer started off wild and went all over the woods, but the Lynx still held on having a good hold and the Deer could not shake him off. 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 8

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The Deer started off wild and went all over the woods, but the Lynx still held on having a good hold and the Deer could not shake him off.

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**Who acts:** Deer, Lynx · **What happens:** start off, go, hold, have, not shake off · **To what, where:** woods, good hold, Lynx

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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:pg76755:16:8
# text = The Deer started off wild and went all over the woods, but the Lynx still held on having a good hold and the Deer could not shake him off.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the Deer |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Deer *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over wood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the Lynx |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | the Lynx *not said here* | a good hold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **shake off** | could | the Deer | Lynx |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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