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title: “Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” t… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” the younger said. Who acts: younger. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 16

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“Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” the younger said.

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**Who acts:** younger · **What happens:** go, try, get back, say · **To what, where:** morrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger), 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:pg76755:28:16
# text = “Well, I will go to-morrow and I will try and get back in a week,” the younger said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the younger *= young* |  |  | morrow |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | future | the younger *= young* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get back** *in a quote* | infinitive | the younger *= young* *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the younger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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