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title: Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die. Who acts: families. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Killing the Old People., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Killing the Old People., sentence 6

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Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** make, go back, leave, die · **To what, where:** camp, woman

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Killing the Old People.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (families), 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:pg76755:20:6
# text = Instead of making a camp they went back home and left her to die.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | a camp |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
| 2 | **go back** | past | families *= family* | a camp *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | families *= family* *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | families *= family* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «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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