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title: The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different bir… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different birds, such as the blue jay, robins and others. Who acts: pieces. 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 5

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The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different birds, such as the blue jay, robins and others.

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**Who acts:** pieces · **What happens:** not fall back, become · **To what, where:** different birds

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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 (pieces), 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:pg76755:26:5
# text = The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different birds, such as the blue jay, robins and others.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **fall back** | past · do-support | the pieces of meat |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the pieces of meat *not said here* | different birds such the blue jay  robins and others |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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