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title: The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree, also the “Monster,” were drawn by Wash-a-ghe-zik. Who acts: two little shiny men, Wash. 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 28

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The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree, also the “Monster,” were drawn by Wash-a-ghe-zik.

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**Who acts:** two little shiny men, Wash · **What happens:** set, draw · **To what, where:** lightning, tree, sketch

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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 (two little shiny men, Wash), 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:pg76755:29:28
# text = The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree, also the “Monster,” were drawn by Wash-a-ghe-zik.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Wash	Wash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ghe	ghe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	zik	zik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund | the two little shiny men *not said here* | lightning |  | the tree |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme at tree=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | past · passive | Wash | the sketch of the two little shiny men and the Monster |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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