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description: The next man came before Nanabush and said, “I am a hunter and I would like to call the game to me when I want them, some wild beasts.” Who acts: next man. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Four Men. (no. 4.), sentence 20

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The next man came before Nanabush and said, “I am a hunter and I would like to call the game to me when I want them, some wild beasts.”

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**Who acts:** next man · **What happens:** come, say, be, like, call, want · **To what, where:** Nanabush, hunter, game, next man · **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 (next man), 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:pg76755:17:20
# text = The next man came before Nanabush and said, “I am a hunter and I would like to call the game to me when I want them, some wild beasts.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the next man |  |  | Nanabush |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before nanabush=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the next man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the next man *= man* | a hunter and some wild beasts |  |  |  | some wild beasts *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** *in a quote* | would | the next man *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **call** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the next man *= man* *not said here* | the game | the next man *= man* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the next man *= man* | hunter |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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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