Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 15

He then told his boys “if they saw the sky red that would show them that he (their father) was killed by his wife’s sweetheart.”

Who acts: man, children, sky red, sweetheart · What happens: tell, see, show, kill · To what, where: boys, sky red, children, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, children, sky red, sweetheart), 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	3 told	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boys	nmod:poss
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	iobj
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 red	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 red	compound
12	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 show	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 show	aux
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 red	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 show	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 killed	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 killed	nsubj:pass
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 he	appos
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 show	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 sweetheart	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sweetheart	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 wife	case
29	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		man's boys	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	children = child	the sky red			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
3	show in a quote	would	the sky red	children = child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill in a quote	past · passive	man's wife's sweetheart	man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 15