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title: The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in winter time on the ice. Who acts: Ojibwas. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 2

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The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in winter time on the ice.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwas · **What happens:** enter, couchich · **To what, where:** Lake

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwas), 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:pg76755:10:2
# text = The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in winter time on the ice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibwas	ojibwa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Couchiching	couchich	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · progressive | the Ojibwas |  | Lake |  |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination |
| 2 | **couchich** | gerund | the Ojibwas *not said here* |  |  |  | time | by the west side | tree rules |

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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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