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title: His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain. Who acts: actions, man, camp. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 14

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His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain.

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**Who acts:** actions, man, camp · **What happens:** continue, die, act

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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 (actions, man, camp), 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:pg76755:14:14
# text = His actions continued till noon when the man died in horrible pain.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | camp's actions |  |  |  | noon |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | in horrible pain | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pain=Attribute |
| 3 | **act** |  | camp |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=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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