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title: So the Ojibwa war party started for the Mohawk country and while the… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Ojibwa war party started for the Mohawk country and while they were going the old man said, “She has made her escape and is coming back.” Who acts: Ojibwa war party, Mohawks, old man, party. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with its depe
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 14

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So the Ojibwa war party started for the Mohawk country and while they were going the old man said, “She has made her escape and is coming back.”

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa war party, Mohawks, old man, party · **What happens:** start, go, say, make, come back, escape · **To what, where:** escape · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibwa war party, Mohawks, old man, party), 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:pg76755:11:14
# text = So the Ojibwa war party started for the Mohawk country and while they were going the old man said, “She has made her escape and is coming back.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the Ojibwa war party |  |  |  |  | for the Mohawk country | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Mohawks *= mohawk* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | party | party's escape |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Product |
| 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | present · progressive | party *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **escape** *in a quote* |  | party |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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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