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title: They talked a little while when Nanabush said something to his daugh… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They talked a little while when Nanabush said something to his daughter, who was a very nice-looking girl, and she started to cook something which was bear meat, and took some blueberries and cooked them (both) in a very little pot (about the size of a cup). Who acts: Indians, Nanabush, daughter, gi
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 10

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They talked a little while when Nanabush said something to his daughter, who was a very nice-looking girl, and she started to cook something which was bear meat, and took some blueberries and cooked them (both) in a very little pot (about the size of a cup).

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**Who acts:** Indians, Nanabush, daughter, girl · **What happens:** talk, say, look, be, start, cook · **To what, where:** something, daughter, looking girl, bear meat, blueberries, Indians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, Nanabush, daughter, girl), 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:pg76755:17:10
# text = They talked a little while when Nanabush said something to his daughter, who was a very nice-looking girl, and she started to cook something which was bear meat, and took some blueberries and cooked them (both) in a very little pot (about the size of a cup).
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
49	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	about	about	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | while |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nanabush | something | Nanabush's daughter and a looking girl |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to daughter=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Nanabush's daughter and a looking girl | a looking girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **cook** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | bear meat |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | past |  | some blueberries |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blueberry=Theme |
| 9 | **cook** | past |  | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | in a little pot; both *obl* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in pot=Instrument |

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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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