--- title: He (York) grabbed the bear by the legs till the other hunter got his… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: He (York) grabbed the bear by the legs till the other hunter got his gun loaded. Who acts: Lake, other hunter, gun. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [John York’s Own Story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/) / 17 # Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 17 He (York) grabbed the bear by the legs till the other hunter got his gun loaded. **Who acts:** Lake, other hunter, gun · **What happens:** grab, get, load · **To what, where:** bear This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake, other hunter, gun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:29:17 # text = He (York) grabbed the bear by the legs till the other hunter got his gun loaded. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 5 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 loaded load VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | Lake | the bear | | | | by the legs | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | | 2 | **get** | past | the other hunter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **load** | past | Lake's gun | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/18/) - ↑ back to [John York’s Own Story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/)