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title: Perhaps some of the older Indians on the Reserve might know. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps some of the older Indians on the Reserve might know. Who acts: some. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa Myths and Tales., sentence 16

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Perhaps some of the older Indians on the Reserve might know.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** know

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa Myths and Tales.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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:pg76755:1:16
# text = Perhaps some of the older Indians on the Reserve might know.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | might | some of the older Indians on the Reserve |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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