Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 8

He came to life and said that he had been in heaven and was sorry for what he had done by leaving his wife on the Reserve, etc., but that he knew he was going to die in exactly a month from that day at midday, and would never see Rama again.

Who acts: camp · What happens: come, say, be, do, leave, know · To what, where: life, heaven, wife, Reserve, midday, Rama · 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), 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 heaven	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heaven	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heaven	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 heaven	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 heaven	case
12	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sorry	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sorry	cop
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sorry	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 what	acl:relcl
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 leaving	mark
22	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 done	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 Reserve	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Reserve	det
27	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 etc.	punct
29	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	27 Reserve	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knew	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 knew	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 knew	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 going	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 going	aux
37	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 knew	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 die	mark
39	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 going	xcomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 month	case
41	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	43 month	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 month	det
43	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 die	obl
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 day	case
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 die	obl
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 midday	case
48	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 die	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 see	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 see	cc
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 see	aux
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 see	advmod
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
54	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 see	obj
55	again	again	ADV	_	53 see	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	camp		life			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	camp not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	camp		heaven			tree rules
4	is	past	camp not said here				what obl; sorry property	tree rules
5	do	past · perfect	camp					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leave	gerund	camp not said here	camp's wife	the Reserve and etc.			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme on reserve=Location
7	know	past	camp					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	go	past · progressive	camp					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	die	to-infinitive	camp not said here		midday	day; month		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	not see	would	camp not said here	Rama		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rama=Stimulus

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 8

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Ojibwa myths and tales, The Social Problem., sentence 8