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title: He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the las… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the last day, but before noon he said his time was near and began to act terribly crazy-like. Who acts: camp, time. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 11

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He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the last day, but before noon he said his time was near and began to act terribly crazy-like.

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**Who acts:** camp, time · **What happens:** be, say, begin, act · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp, time), 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:pg76755:14:11
# text = He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the last day, but before noon he said his time was near and began to act terribly crazy-like.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | camp |  |  |  |  | all, before, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | camp |  |  |  | noon; time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | camp's time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past | camp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **act** | to-infinitive | camp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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