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title: A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away back in the woods where nobody else was to be seen. Who acts: two brothers. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 4

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A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away back in the woods where nobody else was to be seen.

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**Who acts:** two brothers · **What happens:** be, live, see · **To what, where:** camp, nobody

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers), 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:pg76755:28:4
# text = A good many years ago there were two brothers living in a camp away back in the woods where nobody else was to be seen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two brothers |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | two brothers *not said here* |  |  | a camp |  | in the woods; away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive | two brothers *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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