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title: This “something” would tell the young man some hours before a storm… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This “something” would tell the young man some hours before a storm came up that the storm was coming, so that the Indians could make camp. Who acts: something, storm, Indians. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 24

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This “something” would tell the young man some hours before a storm came up that the storm was coming, so that the Indians could make camp.

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**Who acts:** something, storm, Indians · **What happens:** tell, come up, come, make · **To what, where:** young man, camp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, storm, Indians), 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:pg76755:30:24
# text = This “something” would tell the young man some hours before a storm came up that the storm was coming, so that the Indians could make camp.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
29	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | something  This |  | the young man |  | hour |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come up** | past | a storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | could | the Indians | camp |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Product |

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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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