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title: While living together he made up his mind to send his wife away to l… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While living together he made up his mind to send his wife away to look after the dead, those that died long years ago, where she is now. Who acts: Nanabush, those, wife. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush. (no. 6.), sentence 4

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While living together he made up his mind to send his wife away to look after the dead, those that died long years ago, where she is now.

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**Who acts:** Nanabush, those, wife · **What happens:** live together, make up, send away, look, die, be · **To what, where:** mind, wife

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush. (no. 6.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanabush, those, wife), 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:pg76755:22:4
# text = While living together he made up his mind to send his wife away to look after the dead, those that died long years ago, where she is now.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | gerund | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | past | Nanabush | Nanabush's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **send away** | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* | Nanabush's wife |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Nanabush *not said here* |  |  |  | after the dead |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **die** | past | those |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **be** | present | wife |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **mind** |  | Nanabush |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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