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title: “Well, it just suits me, and I will tell all the kinds of ducks to c… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, it just suits me, and I will tell all the kinds of ducks to come,” said the Chief Duck. Who acts: music, I, Chief Duck. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 22

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“Well, it just suits me, and I will tell all the kinds of ducks to come,” said the Chief Duck.

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**Who acts:** music, I, Chief Duck · **What happens:** suit, tell, come, say · **To what, where:** me, kinds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (music, I, Chief Duck), 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:pg76755:25:22
# text = “Well, it just suits me, and I will tell all the kinds of ducks to come,” said the Chief Duck.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	suits	suit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Duck	Duck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** *in a quote* | present | music | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | I | all kinds of ducks |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Chief Duck |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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