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title: One time there was a family camping at Sturgeon Lake (Victoria Count… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One time there was a family camping at Sturgeon Lake (Victoria County). Who acts: family. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Tailless Sturgeon., sentence 2

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One time there was a family camping at Sturgeon Lake (Victoria County).

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**Who acts:** family · **What happens:** be, camp · **To what, where:** Sturgeon Lake

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Tailless Sturgeon.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), 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:pg76755:24:2
# text = One time there was a family camping at Sturgeon Lake (Victoria County).
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Sturgeon	Sturgeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a family |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **camp** | gerund | a family *not said here* |  |  | Sturgeon Lake |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lake=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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