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title: He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry fo… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry for what he had done by leaving his wife on the Reserve, etc., but that he knew he was going to die in exactly a month from that day at midday, and would never see Rama again. Who acts: camp. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by 
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 8

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He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry for what he had done by leaving his wife on the Reserve, etc., but that he knew he was going to die in exactly a month from that day at midday, and would never see Rama again.

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**Who acts:** camp · **What happens:** come, say, be, do, leave, know · **To what, where:** life, heaven, wife, Reserve, midday, Rama · **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), 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:pg76755:14:8
# text = He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry for what he had done by leaving his wife on the Reserve, etc., but that he knew he was going to die in exactly a month from that day at midday, and would never see Rama again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
54	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
55	again	again	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | camp |  |  | life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | camp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | camp |  |  | heaven |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | camp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obl*; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | camp *not said here* | camp's wife |  | the Reserve and etc. |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme on reserve=Location |
| 7 | **know** | past | camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **go** | past · progressive | camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **die** | to-infinitive | camp *not said here* |  |  | midday | day; month |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 10 | **not** **see** | would | camp *not said here* | Rama |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rama=Stimulus |

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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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