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title: The Deer knew that there was a leaning tree in the bush so he made f… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Deer knew that there was a leaning tree in the bush so he made for that, knowing that he could knock the Lynx off as he ran under the tree. Who acts: Deer, leaning tree. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 9

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The Deer knew that there was a leaning tree in the bush so he made for that, knowing that he could knock the Lynx off as he ran under the tree.

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**Who acts:** Deer, leaning tree · **What happens:** know, be, lean, make, knock off, run · **To what, where:** Lynx, 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 (Deer, leaning tree), 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:pg76755:16:9
# text = The Deer knew that there was a leaning tree in the bush so he made for that, knowing that he could knock the Lynx off as he ran under the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** | past | the Deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | a leaning tree in the bush |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | deer |  |  |  |  | for that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for that=Asset |
| 5 | **know** | gerund | deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **knock off** | could | deer | the Lynx |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lynx=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | past | deer |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Trajectory |

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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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