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title: One time a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One time a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his wife. Who acts: man, arrow. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Origin of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 2

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One time a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his wife.

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**Who acts:** man, arrow · **What happens:** shoot, steal · **To what, where:** another, wife

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Origin of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, arrow), 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:pg76755:26:2
# text = One time a man shot another with his bow and arrow for stealing his wife.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | a man | another |  |  | time | with man's bow and arrow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent another=Patient with bow=Instrument |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | arrow *not said here* | man's wife |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=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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