--- title: She said, “A good many years ago my husband had a dream ‘never to wa… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: She said, “A good many years ago my husband had a dream ‘never to walk across the ice of any lake’ and he may have tried to go across some lake at night and was taken by some big bird (Thunderbird) or somebody I never heard of. Who acts: wife, husband, big bird. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [Thunderbirds. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/) / 26 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 26 She said, “A good many years ago my husband had a dream ‘never to walk across the ice of any lake’ and he may have tried to go across some lake at night and was taken by some big bird (Thunderbird) or somebody I never heard of. **Who acts:** wife, husband, big bird · **What happens:** say, have, not walk, try, go, take · **To what, where:** dream, ice, lake · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wife, husband, big bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:5:26 # text = She said, “A good many years ago my husband had a dream ‘never to walk across the ice of any lake’ and he may have tried to go across some lake at night and was taken by some big bird (Thunderbird) or somebody I never heard of. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 4 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 across across ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ _ 30 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 across across ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 43 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Thunderbird thunderbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 or or CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 44 conj _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | my husband | a dream | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | | 3 | **not** **walk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | the ice of any lake | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ice=Trajectory | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | may · perfect | husband | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* | | | some lake | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across lake=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | past · passive | some big bird somebody | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | past | wife | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/27/) - ↑ back to [Thunderbirds. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/5/)