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title: They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down in the water about a hundred yards from shore. Who acts: Indians, bird. 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 every 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 98

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They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down in the water about a hundred yards from shore.

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**Who acts:** Indians, bird · **What happens:** get, have, come down · **To what, where:** hundred yards, water

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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 (Indians, bird), 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:pg76755:28:98
# text = They got close to shore when the bird got tired and had to come down in the water about a hundred yards from shore.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | to shore *result*; close *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result |
| 2 | **get** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come down** | to-infinitive | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | hundred yards from shore |  | the water |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

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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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