--- title: After a short while the party moved camp on their homeward journey,… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: After a short while the party moved camp on their homeward journey, and at Balsam Lake when the month was just about to be up the man said that he was going to die and knew he could not stop it. Who acts: party, month, man, camp. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. 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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 (party, month, man, camp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:14:9 # text = After a short while the party moved camp on their homeward journey, and at Balsam Lake when the month was just about to be up the man said that he was going to die and knew he could not stop it. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 homeward homeward NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Balsam Balsam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past | the party | camp | | people's homeward journey | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the month | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the man | | | Balsam Lake | | say *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | camp | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **die** | to-infinitive | camp *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **know** | past | camp *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **stop** | could | camp | party | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 8 | **journey** | | people | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. 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