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title: When everything was over the Ojibwa chief started for home, and as h… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When everything was over the Ojibwa chief started for home, and as he was going home he made up his mind that he would also do this kind of work some day. Who acts: everything, Ojibwa chief, boy. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), with its depende
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 16

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When everything was over the Ojibwa chief started for home, and as he was going home he made up his mind that he would also do this kind of work some day.

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**Who acts:** everything, Ojibwa chief, boy · **What happens:** be, start, go, make up, do, mind · **To what, where:** Ojibwa chief, mind, kind

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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, Ojibwa chief, boy), 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:pg76755:9:16
# text = When everything was over the Ojibwa chief started for home, and as he was going home he made up his mind that he would also do this kind of work some day.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 |  |  | the Ojibwa chief |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | the Ojibwa chief |  |  |  |  | for home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | boy |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make up** | past | boy | boy's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 5 | **do** | would | boy | this kind of work |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |
| 6 | **mind** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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