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title: He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out on… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out one morning quite a long ways off the Reserve to hunt bear and duck. Who acts: man. 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 3

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He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out one morning quite a long ways off the Reserve to hunt bear and duck.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** want, hunt, go out · **To what, where:** long ways, bear

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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 (man), 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:pg76755:29:3
# text = He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out one morning quite a long ways off the Reserve to hunt bear and duck.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
26	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go out** | past | man | quite long ways off the Reserve |  |  | morning | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | bear and duck |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=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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