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title: The man saw two young ones (young Thunderbirds) coming towards him,… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The man saw two young ones (young Thunderbirds) coming towards him, and when one of these got near enough it opened its mouth wide. Who acts: man, two young ones, one, bird. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 2.), sentence 9

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The man saw two young ones (young Thunderbirds) coming towards him, and when one of these got near enough it opened its mouth wide.

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**Who acts:** man, two young ones, one, bird · **What happens:** see, come, get, open · **To what, where:** two young ones, mouth

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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 (man, two young ones, one, bird), 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:pg76755:5:9
# text = The man saw two young ones (young Thunderbirds) coming towards him, and when one of these got near enough it opened its mouth wide.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Thunderbirds	thunderbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
21	near	near	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the man | two young ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | two young ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **get** | participle | one of these |  |  |  |  | enough, near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **open** | past | bird | bird's mouth |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=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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