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title: Nanabush is getting very grey sitting all the time smoking his pipe. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nanabush is getting very grey sitting all the time smoking his pipe. Who acts: Nanabush. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 10

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Nanabush is getting very grey sitting all the time smoking his pipe.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush · **What happens:** get, sit, smoke · **To what, where:** pipe

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg76755:22:10
# text = Nanabush is getting very grey sitting all the time smoking his pipe.
1	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · progressive | Nanabush |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smoke** | gerund | Nanabush *not said here* | Nanabush's pipe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

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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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