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title: The Mohawks in camping at night fixed some poles around the fire abo… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mohawks in camping at night fixed some poles around the fire about two feet from the ground, and would lay on their backs with their feet on the poles, warming their hind quarters. Who acts: Mohawks. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with it
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 36

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The Mohawks in camping at night fixed some poles around the fire about two feet from the ground, and would lay on their backs with their feet on the poles, warming their hind quarters.

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**Who acts:** Mohawks · **What happens:** fix, lay, warm · **To what, where:** poles, fire, backs, hind quarters, Mohawks

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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 (Mohawks), 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:pg76755:11:36
# text = The Mohawks in camping at night fixed some poles around the fire about two feet from the ground, and would lay on their backs with their feet on the poles, warming their hind quarters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	camping	camping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | participle | the Mohawks in camping at night *not said here* | some poles |  | the fire and two feet from the ground |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pole=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | would |  |  |  | Mohawks's backs with Mohawks's feet on the poles |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |
| 3 | **warm** | gerund |  | poles's hind quarters |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient |

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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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