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title: Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on a hunt up the Gull River waters. Who acts: purpose. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 2

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Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on a hunt up the Gull River waters.

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**Who acts:** purpose · **What happens:** leave, go up · **To what, where:** Rama Reserve, River waters, hunt

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose), 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:pg76755:14:2
# text = Once a small party left the Rama Reserve for the purpose of going on a hunt up the Gull River waters.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Gull	Gull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  | the Rama Reserve |  |  |  | once a small party; for the purpose | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reserve=Theme for purpose=Recipient |
| 2 | **go up** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | the River waters |  | a hunt |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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