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title: Told by Ben Simcoe, Chippewa (Ojibwa), of Rama Reserve, Ontario Coun… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Told by Ben Simcoe, Chippewa (Ojibwa), of Rama Reserve, Ontario County. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 1

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Told by Ben Simcoe, Chippewa (Ojibwa), of Rama Reserve, Ontario County.

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**What happens:** tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76755:30:1
# text = Told by Ben Simcoe, Chippewa (Ojibwa), of Rama Reserve, Ontario County.
1	Told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
4	Simcoe	Simcoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of Rama Reserve and Ontario County; Ben and Chippewa *obl:agent* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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