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title: He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shou… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank. Who acts: Rat. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 11

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He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** catch, throw · **To what, where:** sturgeon, paws, shoulder

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat), 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:pg76755:6:11
# text = He was catching sturgeon in his paws and throwing them over his shoulder on to the bank.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	sturgeon	sturgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · progressive | Rat | sturgeon |  | Rat's paws |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | Rat *not said here* | paws *= paw* |  | Rat's shoulder |  | on the bank | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination |

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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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