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title: Some one inside told him to “come in.” — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some one inside told him to “come in.” Who acts: one. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 21

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Some one inside told him to “come in.”

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** tell, come in · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg76755:5:21
# text = Some one inside told him to “come in.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | some one |  | place |  |  | inside *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come in** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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