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title: And when the first canoe was just going into the river there was smo… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the first canoe was just going into the river there was smoke of gunfire from both sides. Who acts: first canoe, smoke, gunfire. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 11

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And when the first canoe was just going into the river there was smoke of gunfire from both sides.

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**Who acts:** first canoe, smoke, gunfire · **What happens:** go, be, smoke · **To what, where:** river

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (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 (first canoe, smoke, gunfire), 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:pg76755:8:11
# text = And when the first canoe was just going into the river there was smoke of gunfire from both sides.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gunfire	gunfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | the first canoe |  |  | the river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | smoke of gunfire from both sides |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smoke** |  | gunfire from both sides |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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