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title: When it was almost daylight, the old woman sat over the hole again a… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths a
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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

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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.

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:14:22
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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