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title: THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KIT… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KITCHÉ NŬH MAH. 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 7

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THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KITCHÉ NŬH MAH.

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**To what, where:** BEAR

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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: 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:pg76755:6:7
# text = THE BEAR, THE WILD CAT AND THE BIG STURGEON—MUH KWAH, PEZHEW AND KITCHÉ NŬH MAH.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BEAR	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	WILD	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	CAT	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	BIG	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	STURGEON	sturgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	MUH	muh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	KWAH	KWAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	PEZHEW	PEZHEW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	KITCHÉ	KITCHÉ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	NŬH	NŬH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	MAH	MAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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