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title: These are some of Nanabush’s works while he lived. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These are some of Nanabush’s works while he lived. Who acts: Nanabush. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.), sentence 10

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These are some of Nanabush’s works while he lived.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush · **What happens:** be, work, live

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush), 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:pg76755:3:10
# text = These are some of Nanabush’s works while he lived.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of this Nanabush | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | this Nanabush |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | Nanabush |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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