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title: A young Indian, many years ago, went out to hunt early one morning,… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A young Indian, many years ago, went out to hunt early one morning, and coming on noon he got hungry and started back to camp. Who acts: story. 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 17

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A young Indian, many years ago, went out to hunt early one morning, and coming on noon he got hungry and started back to camp.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** go out, hunt, come, get, start back · **To what, where:** noon

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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: who acts (story), 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:pg76755:30:17
# text = A young Indian, many years ago, went out to hunt early one morning, and coming on noon he got hungry and started back to camp.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ago, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  | noon |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past | story | noon *not said here* |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer noon=Stimulus |
| 5 | **start back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to camp | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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