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title: The old woman went off into the woods to where there was a dead spru… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 128

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The old woman went off into the woods to where there was a dead spruce stump that was full of ants.

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**Who acts:** old woman, dead spruce stump · **What happens:** go off, be · **To what, where:** woods

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:7:128
# text = The old woman went off into the woods to where there was a dead spruce stump that was full of ants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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