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title: His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.” — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.” Who acts: Indian name, ghe zik, Reserve. 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.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, John York’s Own Story., sentence 26

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His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.”

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**Who acts:** Indian name, ghe zik, Reserve · **What happens:** be, mean, name · **To what, where:** ghe zik

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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 (Indian name, ghe zik, Reserve), 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:pg76755:29:26
# text = His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.”
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	Wash	Wash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ghe	ghe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	zik	zik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Reserve's Indian name | a ghe zik |  |  |  | Wash *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a ghe zik |  |  |  | day |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** |  | Reserve |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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