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title: Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any. Who acts: sturgeon. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 7

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Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any.

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**Who acts:** sturgeon · **What happens:** hear, jump, not catch · **To what, where:** sturgeon, any

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sturgeon), 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:pg76755:24:7
# text = Had heard these sturgeon jumping at night, but had never caught any.
1	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sturgeon	sturgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	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 · perfect |  | this sturgeon |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sturgeon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund | this sturgeon *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **catch** | past · perfect |  | any |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |

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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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