Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 135
Then the old woman took the stump full of ants in and put it beneath the rabbitskin blanket, covered it up just like the girl’s figure sleeping there, and the two then fled to the mother’s camp.
Who acts: old woman, figure, two, girl · What happens: take, put, cover up, sleep, flee, figure · To what, where: stump, few, rabbitskin blanket, camp
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, figure, two, girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stump | det |
| 7 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stump | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ants | case |
| 10 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 blanket | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blanket | det |
| 17 | rabbitskin | rabbitskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blanket | compound |
| 18 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 covered | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 covered | compound:prt |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 figure | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 figure | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 figure | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 28 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 covered | parataxis |
| 29 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 figure | acl |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 sleeping | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fled | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fled | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 two | det |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 fled | nsubj |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 fled | advmod |
| 36 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 camp | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mother | det |
| 39 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 camp | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 mother | case |
| 41 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fled | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old woman | the stump | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stump=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the old woman not said here | few | the rabbitskin blanket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme beneath blanket=Destination | |||
| 3 | cover up | past | the old woman not said here | few | the girl's figure parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | the girl's figure not said here | there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | the two | the mother's camp | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | figure | the girl | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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