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title: When this young man came home in the evening he happened to step on… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When this young man came home in the evening he happened to step on the bone and got hurt, which laid him up nearly all winter, and they all got hard times. Who acts: young man, man, bone, people. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The People Who Became Serpents., with its de
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The People Who Became Serpents., sentence 8

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When this young man came home in the evening he happened to step on the bone and got hurt, which laid him up nearly all winter, and they all got hard times.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, bone, people · **What happens:** come, happen, step, hurt, lay up, get · **To what, where:** bone, man

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The People Who Became Serpents.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, bone, people), 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:pg76755:27:8
# text = When this young man came home in the evening he happened to step on the bone and got hurt, which laid him up nearly all winter, and they all got hard times.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
32	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **come** | past | this young man |  |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **step** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | the bone |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hurt** | past · passive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **lay up** | past | the bone | man |  |  | winter |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 6 | **get** | past | people |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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