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title: After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red woman in just the same po… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red woman in just the same position as the Mohawk woman posed, on the rocks on the east shore near where the fight took place (now called McPherson’s Quarry or Geneva Park). Who acts: Ojibwas, fight. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Oj
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 7

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After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red woman in just the same position as the Mohawk woman posed, on the rocks on the east shore near where the fight took place (now called McPherson’s Quarry or Geneva Park).

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**Who acts:** Ojibwas, fight · **What happens:** paint, pose, take, call · **To what, where:** red woman, same position, Mohawk woman, place · **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. 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, fight), 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:pg76755:10:7
# text = After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red woman in just the same position as the Mohawk woman posed, on the rocks on the east shore near where the fight took place (now called McPherson’s Quarry or Geneva Park).
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Ojibwas	ojibwa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	posed	pose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
37	McPherson	McPherson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	Quarry	Quarry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | the Ojibwas | a red woman |  | the same position as the Mohawk woman | after the battle | on the rocks on the east shore | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in position=Destination |
| 2 | **pose** | participle |  | the Mohawk woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the fight | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | place *not said here* |  |  | now | McPherson's Quarry or Geneva *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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