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title: The old people once went to the Blue Mountains near Collingwood a lo… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old people once went to the Blue Mountains near Collingwood a long time ago. Who acts: old people. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.), sentence 2

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The old people once went to the Blue Mountains near Collingwood a long time ago.

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**Who acts:** old people · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Collingwood

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Thunderbirds. (no. 1.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people), 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:pg76755:4:2
# text = The old people once went to the Blue Mountains near Collingwood a long time ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Blue	Blue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Collingwood	Collingwood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the old people |  |  | Collingwood |  | to the Blue Mountains; ago, once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=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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