--- title: The witch’s son who was also there took an axe and rushed up to his… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics description: The witch’s son who was also there took an axe and rushed up to his witch mother and said, “You must stop causing people to die, or else I’ll put the axe to your head.” Who acts: son, You, people. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/13/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / [Rama Witches. (no. 2.)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/13/) / 10 # Ojibwa myths and tales, Rama Witches. (no. 2.), sentence 10 The witch’s son who was also there took an axe and rushed up to his witch mother and said, “You must stop causing people to die, or else I’ll put the axe to your head.” **Who acts:** son, You, people · **What happens:** be, take, rush up, say, stop, cause · **To what, where:** axe, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rama Witches. (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 (son, You, people), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76755:13:10 # text = The witch’s son who was also there took an axe and rushed up to his witch mother and said, “You must stop causing people to die, or else I’ll put the axe to your head.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 26 causing cause VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ll 'll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | who *nsubj*; there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | the witch's son | a axe | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 3 | **rush up** | past | the witch's son *not said here* | | | | | to son's witch mother *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the witch's son *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | must | You | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **cause** *in a quote* | gerund | You *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **'ll** *in a quote* | present | the witch's son *= son* | | | | | else *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the witch's son *= son* *not said here* | the axe | | | | to your head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent axe=Goal | 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. 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