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title: The Ojibwa used to come to where Beaverton now is and then across to… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibwa used to come to where Beaverton now is and then across to South Bay, Balsam Lake, by another route south of the Portage Road. Who acts: Ojibwa. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 42

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The Ojibwa used to come to where Beaverton now is and then across to South Bay, Balsam Lake, by another route south of the Portage Road.

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**Who acts:** Ojibwa · **What happens:** use, come, be · **To what, where:** South Bay

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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), 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:pg76755:11:42
# text = The Ojibwa used to come to where Beaverton now is and then across to South Bay, Balsam Lake, by another route south of the Portage Road.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
8	Beaverton	Beaverton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Balsam	Balsam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	south	south	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Portage	Portage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	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 | **use** | past | the Ojibwa |  |  |  |  | by another route of the Portage Road | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | the Ojibwa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Ojibwa *not said here* |  |  | South Bay | now; then |  | 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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