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title: Sometimes they do this with so much force that they leave the small… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes they do this with so much force that they leave the small lakes partially dry. Who acts: monsters. 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 46

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Sometimes they do this with so much force that they leave the small lakes partially dry.

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**Who acts:** monsters · **What happens:** do, leave · **To what, where:** this, small lakes

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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 (monsters), 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:pg76755:30:46
# text = Sometimes they do this with so much force that they leave the small lakes partially dry.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | monsters *= monster* | this |  |  |  | with much force; sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | present | monsters *= monster* | the small lakes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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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