Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 11

He was all right the night before and also on the morning of the last day, but before noon he said his time was near and began to act terribly crazy-like.

Who acts: camp, time · What happens: be, say, begin, act · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Social Problem.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 before	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 morning	cc
9	also	also	ADV	_	12 morning	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 morning	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 noon	case
20	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 right	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 near	cop
26	near	near	ADV	_	24 time	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 act	mark
30	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	34 like	advmod
32	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 like	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 crazy	punct
34	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 act	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	camp		all, before, right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	camp	noon; time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	camp's time not said here		near property	tree rules
4	begin	past	camp not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	act	to-infinitive	camp not said here			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 11