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title: When everything was ready he invited all the other neighbouring chie… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When everything was ready he invited all the other neighbouring chiefs as well as the Ojibwa chief who had lost his son, and there were hundreds of Indians besides. Who acts: everything, boy, Ojibwa chief, hundreds. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 11

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When everything was ready he invited all the other neighbouring chiefs as well as the Ojibwa chief who had lost his son, and there were hundreds of Indians besides.

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**Who acts:** everything, boy, Ojibwa chief, hundreds · **What happens:** be, invite, lose · **To what, where:** other neighbouring chiefs, son

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, boy, Ojibwa chief, hundreds), 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:pg76755:9:11
# text = When everything was ready he invited all the other neighbouring chiefs as well as the Ojibwa chief who had lost his son, and there were hundreds of Indians besides.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	compound	_	_
30	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **invite** | past | boy | all other neighbouring chiefs |  |  |  | the Ojibwa chief *conj* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect | the Ojibwa chief | boy's son |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
| 4 | **be** | past | hundreds of Indians besides |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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