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title: Long years ago there were two Ojibwa boys who lived so close togethe… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Long years ago there were two Ojibwa boys who lived so close together that they called each other “Brother,” and one time when they got to be big boys they talked about getting married, so they went away to an Indian (Ojibwa) village not far away and got girls to marry them. Who acts: two Ojibwa boy
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 2

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Long years ago there were two Ojibwa boys who lived so close together that they called each other “Brother,” and one time when they got to be big boys they talked about getting married, so they went away to an Indian (Ojibwa) village not far away and got girls to marry them.

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**Who acts:** two Ojibwa boys, boys, girls · **What happens:** be, live, call, get, talk, marry · **To what, where:** other Brother, big boys, Indian Ojibwa village, girls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (two Ojibwa boys, boys, girls), 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:pg76755:8:2
# text = Long years ago there were two Ojibwa boys who lived so close together that they called each other “Brother,” and one time when they got to be big boys they talked about getting married, so they went away to an Indian (Ojibwa) village not far away and got girls to marry them.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
45	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
49	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
51	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
55	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two Ojibwa boys and one time |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | two Ojibwa boys and one time |  |  |  |  | close, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | boys *= boy* | each other Brother |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | big boys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **talk** | past | boys *= boy* | big boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **marry** | gerund · passive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 8 | **go away** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  | a Indian Ojibwa village |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **get** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **marry** | to-infinitive | girls *not said here* | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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