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title: They were going across to fight the Mohawks on the east side, when a… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were going across to fight the Mohawks on the east side, when an old Mohawk woman came down to the ice hole to get some water. Who acts: Ojibwas, old Mohawk woman. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 3

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They were going across to fight the Mohawks on the east side, when an old Mohawk woman came down to the ice hole to get some water.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwas, old Mohawk woman · **What happens:** go, fight, come down, get · **To what, where:** Mohawks, east side, ice hole, water

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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, old Mohawk woman), 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:pg76755:10:3
# text = They were going across to fight the Mohawks on the east side, when an old Mohawk woman came down to the ice hole to get some water.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Ojibwas *= ojibwa* |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Ojibwas *= ojibwa* *not said here* | the Mohawks |  | the east side |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohawk=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come down** | past | a old Mohawk woman |  |  | the ice hole |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | a old Mohawk woman *not said here* | some water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |

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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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