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description: And in this bay there were a lot of ducks sitting along the shore, and Nanabush would like to kill them all with one shot. Who acts: lot, ducks, Nanabush. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.), sentence 4

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And in this bay there were a lot of ducks sitting along the shore, and Nanabush would like to kill them all with one shot.

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**Who acts:** lot, ducks, Nanabush · **What happens:** be, sit, like, kill · **To what, where:** bay, shore, ducks

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (modern.) (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, ducks, Nanabush), 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:pg76755:2:4
# text = And in this bay there were a lot of ducks sitting along the shore, and Nanabush would like to kill them all with one shot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a lot of ducks |  |  | this bay; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | ducks *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along shore=Location |
| 3 | **like** | would | Nanabush |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* | ducks *= duck* |  |  |  | with one shot | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with shot=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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