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title: He came to a lake and looking around he saw a very nice sandy beach. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He came to a lake and looking around he saw a very nice sandy beach. Who acts: Nanabush. 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 3

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He came to a lake and looking around he saw a very nice sandy beach.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush · **What happens:** come, look around, see · **To what, where:** lake, nice sandy beach

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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 (Nanabush), 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:pg76755:25:3
# text = He came to a lake and looking around he saw a very nice sandy beach.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Nanabush |  |  | a lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look around** | gerund | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | Nanabush | a nice sandy beach |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beach=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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