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description: They got out of the canoe and he showed his wife where there were a good many dead Indians (Mohawks) on both sides of the river. Who acts: stumps, fight, good many dead Indians. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the p
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 24

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They got out of the canoe and he showed his wife where there were a good many dead Indians (Mohawks) on both sides of the river.

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**Who acts:** stumps, fight, good many dead Indians · **What happens:** get out, show, be · **To what, where:** wife

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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 (stumps, fight, good many dead Indians), 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:pg76755:8:24
# text = They got out of the canoe and he showed his wife where there were a good many dead Indians (Mohawks) on both sides of the river.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | past | stumps *= stump* |  |  |  |  | of the canoe; out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of canoe=Source |
| 2 | **show** | past | fight |  | fight's wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** | past | a good many dead Indians |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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