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title: So the Indian had good luck finding them both. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Indian had good luck finding them both. Who acts: Indian, good luck. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 15

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So the Indian had good luck finding them both.

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**Who acts:** Indian, good luck · **What happens:** have, find · **To what, where:** good luck, woods

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, good luck), 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:pg76755:16:15
# text = So the Indian had good luck finding them both.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Indian | good luck |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | good luck *not said here* | woods *= wood* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme both=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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