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title: The old women jumped up and when they felt the fur coat they thought… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 Ojibw
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 75

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The old women jumped up and when they felt the fur coat they thought it was Ayas·e trying to escape through the door.

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**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

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:16:75
# text = The old women jumped up and when they felt the fur coat they thought it was Ayas·e trying to escape through the door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Ayas	Ayas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	·	·	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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