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title: The Ojibwa chief then said, “You go in the daytime and take her and… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibwa chief then said, “You go in the daytime and take her and I will make them sleep sound. Who acts: Ojibwa chief, You, chiefs. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 19

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The Ojibwa chief then said, “You go in the daytime and take her and I will make them sleep sound.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa chief, You, chiefs · **What happens:** say, go, take, make, sleep · **To what, where:** daytime, One, chiefs, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ojibwa chief, You, chiefs), 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:pg76755:9:19
# text = The Ojibwa chief then said, “You go in the daytime and take her and I will make them sleep sound.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ojibwa chief |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  | the daytime |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in daytime=Location |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  | One |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the Ojibwa chief *= chief* | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* | sound |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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