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title: He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and t… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and threw these up in the air. Who acts: man. 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 4

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He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and threw these up in the air.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** go, work, cut up, throw up · **To what, where:** man, these, air

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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), 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:pg76755:26:4
# text = He went to work and cut up about half the man into little bits and threw these up in the air.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut up** | infinitive | man *not said here* | half man |  |  |  | into little bits | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bit=Patient |
| 4 | **throw up** | past | man *not said here* | these |  | the air |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=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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