Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 158
He jumped up, threw off the rabbitskin blanket, and instead of his wife there lay the old rotten spruce stump swarming with ants.
Who acts: jealousy, wife, old rotten spruce stump · What happens: jump up, throw off, lie, swarm · To what, where: rabbitskin blanket, old rotten spruce stump
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 (jealousy, wife, old rotten 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 blanket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blanket | det |
| 8 | rabbitskin | rabbitskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blanket | compound |
| 9 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 wife | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 wife | advmod |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stump | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stump | amod |
| 20 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stump | amod |
| 21 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stump | compound |
| 22 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 23 | swarming | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 stump | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 ants | case |
| 25 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 swarming | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | jealousy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throw off | past | jealousy not said here | the rabbitskin blanket | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | jealousy's wife | the old rotten spruce stump | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stump=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swarm | gerund | the old rotten spruce stump not said here | with ants | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ant=Theme |
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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