Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 128
The old woman went off into the woods to where there was a dead spruce stump that was full of ants.
Who acts: old woman, dead spruce stump · What happens: go off, be · To what, where: woods
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, dead spruce stump), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stump | case |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 was | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stump | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stump | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stump | amod |
| 15 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stump | compound |
| 16 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 full | cop |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stump | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ants | case |
| 21 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the old woman | the woods | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | to a dead spruce stump | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a dead spruce stump | of ants; full property | tree rules |
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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