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title: Those who were appointed to act as waiters started to bring in the e… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who were appointed to act as waiters started to bring in the eatables, beginning at the door, giving the food to the men as they went along. Who acts: waiters. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 13

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Those who were appointed to act as waiters started to bring in the eatables, beginning at the door, giving the food to the men as they went along.

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**Who acts:** waiters · **What happens:** appoint, act, start, bring, begin, give · **To what, where:** eatables, door, food, men, Those

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (waiters), 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:pg76755:9:13
# text = Those who were appointed to act as waiters started to bring in the eatables, beginning at the door, giving the food to the men as they went along.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	waiters	waiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eatables	eatables	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	along	along	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **act** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **start** | past | waiters |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | waiters *not said here* |  |  | the eatables |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **begin** | gerund | waiters *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **give** | gerund | waiters *not said here* | the food | the men |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to man=Recipient |
| 7 | **go along** | past | waiters *= waiter* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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