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title: She said, “On the way every night I had to keep the fire going all n… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She said, “On the way every night I had to keep the fire going all night to keep them warm. Who acts: party, fire. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.), sentence 17

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She said, “On the way every night I had to keep the fire going all night to keep them warm.

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**Who acts:** party, fire · **What happens:** say, have, keep, go · **To what, where:** way, fire, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawks. (no. 4.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, fire), 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:pg76755:11:17
# text = She said, “On the way every night I had to keep the fire going all night to keep them warm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	On	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | party |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | party |  |  | the way  every night |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | party *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the fire *not said here* | man |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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