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description: When he got it all dried he pounded it up very fine, same as corn meal, and put it away in bags for to use in the winter. Who acts: elder, venison. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 8

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When he got it all dried he pounded it up very fine, same as corn meal, and put it away in bags for to use in the winter.

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**Who acts:** elder, venison · **What happens:** get, dry, pound up, put away, use · **To what, where:** venison, bags

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, venison), 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:pg76755:28:8
# text = When he got it all dried he pounded it up very fine, same as corn meal, and put it away in bags for to use in the winter.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pounded	pound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | elder |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dry** | past | venison |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pound up** | past | elder | venison |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 4 | **put away** | infinitive | venison *not said here* | venison |  | bags |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination |
| 5 | **use** | to-infinitive | venison *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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