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title: In passing a pine stub that had been struck by lightning he saw “som… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In passing a pine stub that had been struck by lightning he saw “something” sticking in the tree where the lightning hit. Who acts: lightning, 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 18

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In passing a pine stub that had been struck by lightning he saw “something” sticking in the tree where the lightning hit.

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**Who acts:** lightning, story · **What happens:** pass, strike, see, stick · **To what, where:** pine stub, something, tree

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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 (lightning, 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:pg76755:30:18
# text = In passing a pine stub that had been struck by lightning he saw “something” sticking in the tree where the lightning hit.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stub	stub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  | a pine stub |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stub=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strike** | past · perfect · passive | lightning | a pine stub |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | story | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stick** | gerund |  |  |  | the tree  the lightning hit |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tree=Destination |

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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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