Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 22

When it was almost daylight, the old woman sat over the hole again and the noise of mite′win stopped; it was her spirit that made the noise.

Who acts: noise, old woman, spirit, mite ′ win · What happens: be, sit, stop, make, noise · To what, where: daylight, hole, spirit, noise

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, old woman, spirit, mite ′ win), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 daylight	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daylight	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daylight	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 daylight	advmod
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daylight	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 hole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stopped	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 noise	det
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 win	case
19	mite	mite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 win	compound
20	′	′	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 win	compound
21	win	win	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 noise	nmod
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 spirit	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spirit	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spirit	cop
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spirit	nmod:poss
27	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spirit	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 noise	det
31	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	noise	daylight			almost property	tree rules
2	sit	past	the old woman		the hole	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hole=Location
3	stop	past	the noise of mite ′ win					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past	noise	woman's spirit			woman nmod:poss	tree rules
5	make	past	woman's spirit	the noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
6	noise		mite ′ win					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 22