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title: So he got his warriors to come to him and told them to go to the Oji… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he got his warriors to come to him and told them to go to the Ojibwa village at night and try to kill the chief’s son or daughter. Who acts: Peter, warriors. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 7

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So he got his warriors to come to him and told them to go to the Ojibwa village at night and try to kill the chief’s son or daughter.

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**Who acts:** Peter, warriors · **What happens:** get, come, tell, go, try, kill · **To what, where:** warriors, Peter, Ojibwa village, son · **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 (Peter, warriors), 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:pg76755:9:7
# text = So he got his warriors to come to him and told them to go to the Ojibwa village at night and try to kill the chief’s son or daughter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Peter | Peter's warriors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Peter's warriors *not said here* |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Peter *not said here* |  | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the Ojibwa village | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **try** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | the chief's son or daughter |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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