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title: One said “We will go a long ways up the river to hunt and stay there… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One said “We will go a long ways up the river to hunt and stay there for a good while and will be able to get enough to keep us during the winter months.” Who acts: One, We. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 1.), sentence 4

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One said “We will go a long ways up the river to hunt and stay there for a good while and will be able to get enough to keep us during the winter months.”

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**Who acts:** One, We · **What happens:** say, go, hunt, stay, be, get · **To what, where:** long ways, enough, us · **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 (One, We), 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:pg76755:8:4
# text = One said “We will go a long ways up the river to hunt and stay there for a good while and will be able to get enough to keep us during the winter months.”
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	during	during	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | We | a long ways up the river |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | a long ways up the river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  | there | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | enough |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus |
| 7 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | us |  |  | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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