Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 75
The old women jumped up and when they felt the fur coat they thought it was Ayas·e trying to escape through the door.
Who acts: old women, women, coat, e · What happens: jump up, feel, think, be, try, escape · To what, where: fur coat, Ayas, door · Speech: someone speaks here
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old women, women, coat, e), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | amod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 felt | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 11 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coat | compound |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coat | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Ayas | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Ayas | cop |
| 17 | Ayas | Ayas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 19 e | punct |
| 19 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Ayas | appos |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 e | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 escape | mark |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trying | xcomp |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the old women | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | women = woman | the fur coat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | women = woman | the fur coat not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot coat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | coat | Ayas | e appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | try | gerund | e not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | e not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location |
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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