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title: When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed t… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed they got mad (angry) and both got ready with war clubs and lots of shot and powder. Who acts: other two, brothers, both. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), with its dependency tree
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 5.), sentence 5

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When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed they got mad (angry) and both got ready with war clubs and lots of shot and powder.

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**Who acts:** other two, brothers, both · **What happens:** come, know, kill, get · **To what, where:** brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (other two, brothers, both), 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:pg76755:21:5
# text = When the other two came to know that their brother had been killed they got mad (angry) and both got ready with war clubs and lots of shot and powder.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the other two |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the other two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | Mohawks's brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **get** | past | both |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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