--- title: “I am going to furnish the music,” said Nanabush and he reached out… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I am going to furnish the music,” said Nanabush and he reached out his hand and got his drum and began to sing, which made the Chief Duck dance right there. Who acts: Nanabush, Chief Duck. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/) / 19 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 19 “I am going to furnish the music,” said Nanabush and he reached out his hand and got his drum and began to sing, which made the Chief Duck dance right there. **Who acts:** Nanabush, Chief Duck · **What happens:** go, furnish, say, reach out, get, begin · **To what, where:** music, hand, drum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, Chief Duck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:25:19 # text = “I am going to furnish the music,” said Nanabush and he reached out his hand and got his drum and began to sing, which made the Chief Duck dance right there. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 furnish furnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Nanabush Nanabush PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Duck Duck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 right right ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Nanabush | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **furnish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* | the music | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nanabush | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **reach out** | past | Nanabush | Nanabush's hand | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | Nanabush *not said here* | Nanabush's drum | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | | 6 | **begin** | past | Nanabush *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **make** | past | | | | | | which *nsubj* | tree rules | | 9 | **dance** | present | the Chief Duck | | | there | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/20/) - ↑ back to [Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/25/)