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title: He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before b… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before burial. 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 5

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He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before burial.

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**What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** grave, place

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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: 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:pg76755:14:5
# text = He was left in a place just outside the camp for three days before burial.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | grave |  | a place | before burial; day | outside the camp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in place=Location |

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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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