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title: Notes by G. E. L.—The word “Lady” used here is equivalent to Ogemah­… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Notes by G. E. L.—The word “Lady” used here is equivalent to Ogemah­kwee, which means a chief’s wife or daughter, or some female relative of a chief. Who acts: Notes, kwee, G. E. L.. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the p
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 32

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Notes by G. E. L.—The word “Lady” used here is equivalent to Ogemah­kwee, which means a chief’s wife or daughter, or some female relative of a chief.

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**Who acts:** Notes, kwee, G. E. L. · **What happens:** use, be, mean, note · **To what, where:** word, Ogemah, wife

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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 (Notes, kwee, G. E. L.), 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:pg76755:5:32
# text = Notes by G. E. L.—The word “Lady” used here is equivalent to Ogemah­kwee, which means a chief’s wife or daughter, or some female relative of a chief.
1	Notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ogemah	Ogemah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	­	­	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kwee	kwee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the word *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Notes by G. E. L. |  | Ogemah |  |  | the word *nsubj*; kwee *parataxis*; equivalent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | kwee | a chief's wife or daughter |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 4 | **note** |  | G. E. L. |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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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