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title: You take these bags of shoes and when the dogs attack you throw the… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You take these bags of shoes and when the dogs attack you throw the shoes at them.” Who acts: You, dogs. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.), sentence 14

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You take these bags of shoes and when the dogs attack you throw the shoes at them.”

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**Who acts:** You, dogs · **What happens:** take, attack, throw · **To what, where:** bags, shoes

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Young Man and Wife. (no. 5.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dogs), 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:pg76755:18:14
# text = You take these bags of shoes and when the dogs attack you throw the shoes at them.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | You | this bags of shoes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | present | the dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw** | present | you | the shoes |  |  |  | at dogs *= dog* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme at they=Destination |

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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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