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title: This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she watched if her man would come home. Who acts: Wintigo, wife, man. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants)., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 8

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This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she watched if her man would come home.

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**Who acts:** Wintigo, wife, man · **What happens:** keep on, go past, watch, come · **To what, where:** This

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants).. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wintigo, wife, man), 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:pg76755:15:8
# text = This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she watched if her man would come home.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	past	past	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep on** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **go past** | past | Wintigo |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | wife's man |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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