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title: He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the ai… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the air too, when they became gulls, cranes and such-like birds. Who acts: man, 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 6

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He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the air too, when they became gulls, cranes and such-like birds.

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**Who acts:** man, pieces · **What happens:** cut, throw up, become · **To what, where:** more pieces, these, air, gulls

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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, 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:pg76755:26:6
# text = He cut some more pieces a little bigger and threw these up in the air too, when they became gulls, cranes and such-like birds.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | man | some more pieces |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product |
| 2 | **throw up** | past | man *not said here* | these |  | the air |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | pieces *= piece* | gulls and cranes and like birds |  |  |  |  | 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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