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title: They got in their canoe and got near enough to shoot and kill the be… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They got in their canoe and got near enough to shoot and kill the bear. Who acts: bear. 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 7

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They got in their canoe and got near enough to shoot and kill the bear.

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**Who acts:** bear · **What happens:** get, shoot, kill · **To what, where:** canoe, 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 (bear), 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:pg76755:29:7
# text = They got in their canoe and got near enough to shoot and kill the bear.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | bear |  |  | bear's canoe |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get** | past | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | bear *not said here* | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «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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