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title: He had a dream one night never to cross on the ice at night on any l… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a dream one night never to cross on the ice at night on any lake, but one day shortly afterwards he went too far away hunting and got very tired. Who acts: John. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 4

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He had a dream one night never to cross on the ice at night on any lake, but one day shortly afterwards he went too far away hunting and got very tired.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** have, not cross, go, hunt, get · **To what, where:** dream, ice

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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 (John), 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:pg76755:5:4
# text = He had a dream one night never to cross on the ice at night on any lake, but one day shortly afterwards he went too far away hunting and got very tired.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | John | a dream |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **cross** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the ice | night | on any lake | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | John |  |  |  | day | afterwards, away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | past | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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