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title: Both these men were fine little fellows, all black and shining, and… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Both these men were fine little fellows, all black and shining, and are called Nim-Mah-Kie (Thunder). Who acts: men. 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 37

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Both these men were fine little fellows, all black and shining, and are called Nim-Mah-Kie (Thunder).

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** be, shine, call · **To what, where:** fine little fellows · **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: who acts (men), 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:pg76755:30:37
# text = Both these men were fine little fellows, all black and shining, and are called Nim-Mah-Kie (Thunder).
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
17	Nim	Nim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mah	Mah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Kie	Kie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this men | fine little fellows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | this men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | fine little fellows *not said here* |  |  |  | Nim and Kie *xcomp*; Thunder *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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