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title: He started off and went through where there were a lot of little tre… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He started off and went through where there were a lot of little trees, going right over them. Who acts: Nanabush, lot. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.), sentence 41

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He started off and went through where there were a lot of little trees, going right over them.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush, lot · **What happens:** start off, go, be

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and the Ducks. (no. 8.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, lot), 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:pg76755:25:41
# text = He started off and went through where there were a lot of little trees, going right over them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | Nanabush |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | a lot of little trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over lots *= lot* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial\_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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