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title: After this happened the news spread all over and the two big nations… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this happened the news spread all over and the two big nations got so mad (angry) that they declared war. Who acts: this, news, two big nations, nations. 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
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 34

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After this happened the news spread all over and the two big nations got so mad (angry) that they declared war.

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**Who acts:** this, news, two big nations, nations · **What happens:** happen, spread, get, declare · **To what, where:** war

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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 (this, news, two big nations, nations), 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:pg76755:9:34
# text = After this happened the news spread all over and the two big nations got so mad (angry) that they declared war.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the news |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | the two big nations |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | nations *= nation* | war |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |

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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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