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title: Sturgeon Lake has no sturgeon. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sturgeon Lake has no sturgeon. Who acts: Sturgeon. 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 8

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Sturgeon Lake has no sturgeon.

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**Who acts:** Sturgeon · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** sturgeon

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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 (Sturgeon), 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:pg76755:24:8
# text = Sturgeon Lake has no sturgeon.
1	Sturgeon	Sturgeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	sturgeon	sturgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sturgeon | no sturgeon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Patient |

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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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