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title: He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleepin… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleeping together in a bush, when he shot them with his arrows and killed them both. Who acts: man, actions, wife. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Origin of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 3

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He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleeping together in a bush, when he shot them with his arrows and killed them both.

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**Who acts:** man, actions, wife · **What happens:** watch, see, sleep together, shoot, kill, act · **To what, where:** actions, bush

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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, actions, wife), 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:pg76755:26:3
# text = He watched the actions of his wife and this man and saw them sleeping together in a bush, when he shot them with his arrows and killed them both.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | man | the actions of man's wife and this man |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | man *not said here* | actions *= action* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep together** | gerund | actions *= action* *not said here* |  |  | a bush |  | together *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
| 4 | **shoot** | past | man | actions *= action* |  |  |  | with man's arrows | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
| 5 | **kill** | past | man *not said here* | actions *= action* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result |
| 6 | **act** |  | man's wife and this man |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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