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title: If you look sometimes in the north sky you will see the sky white at… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you look sometimes in the north sky you will see the sky white at night. Who acts: you. 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 11

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If you look sometimes in the north sky you will see the sky white at night.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, see · **To what, where:** sky

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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 (you), 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:pg76755:22:11
# text = If you look sometimes in the north sky you will see the sky white at night.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | in the north sky; sometimes *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sky=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus |

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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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