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title: She heard her man calling for her, he had killed the beaver. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She heard her man calling for her, he had killed the beaver. Who acts: beaver, man. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 4

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She heard her man calling for her, he had killed the beaver.

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**Who acts:** beaver, man · **What happens:** hear, call, kill · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beaver, man), 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:pg76755:23:4
# text = She heard her man calling for her, he had killed the beaver.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | beaver | beaver's man |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | beaver's man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for beaver | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | man |  |  |  | the beaver *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer beaver=Result |

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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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