Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 17

Before their father went away he told them that their mother would follow them though she was dead, so the father gave them some things to use in case they wanted help; an awl, a stone, and a thorn.

Who acts: father, mother, children · What happens: go away, tell, follow, be, give, use · To what, where: children, things, case, help · 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 (father, mother, children), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 follow	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 follow	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 follow	aux
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 follow	obj
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 dead	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 follow	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 gave	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 father	det
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 things	det
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 use	mark
28	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 things	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 case	case
30	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wanted	nsubj
32	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 case	acl:relcl
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wanted	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 awl	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 awl	det
36	awl	awl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stone	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 stone	det
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 awl	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thorn	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 thorn	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 thorn	det
43	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	children's father				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	father		children = child		a awl and a stone parataxis; a thorn parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	follow not said to happen	would	children's mother	children = child				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	past	mother				dead property	tree rules
5	give	past	the father	some things	children = child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient thing=Theme
6	use	to-infinitive	the father not said here	some things not said here		case		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	want	past	children = child	help				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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Ojibwa myths and tales, Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., sentence 17