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title: The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas Geo… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas George, Chippewa, of Rama Reserve, aged about sixty-four, professed Christian. Who acts: Jonas George. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, John York’s Own Story., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 25

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The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas George, Chippewa, of Rama Reserve, aged about sixty-four, professed Christian.

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**Who acts:** Jonas George · **What happens:** remain, tell, profess · **To what, where:** remaining three stories, me, Christian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jonas George), 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:pg76755:29:25
# text = The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas George, Chippewa, of Rama Reserve, aged about sixty-four, professed Christian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	professed	profess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
28	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | Jonas George and Rama Reserve | the remaining three stories | me |  | summer |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **profess** | past | Jonas George and Rama Reserve *not said here* | Christian |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent christian=Theme |

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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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