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title: The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came bac… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came back with a nice little parcel of nice cakes which the Indian’s wife had given to the bird. Who acts: bird, island, Indian wife. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 89

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The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came back with a nice little parcel of nice cakes which the Indian’s wife had given to the bird.

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**Who acts:** bird, island, Indian wife · **What happens:** fly away, be, come back, give · **To what, where:** nice cakes, bird

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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 (bird, island, Indian wife), 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:pg76755:28:89
# text = The bird flew away and she was away for two hours, then she came back with a nice little parcel of nice cakes which the Indian’s wife had given to the bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | island |  |  |  | hour | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** | past | island |  |  |  | then | with a nice little parcel of nice cakes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | the Indian wife | nice cakes | the bird |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to bird=Recipient |

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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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