--- title: Then the old woman took the stump full of ants in and put it beneath… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66509:7:135 # text = 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. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stump stump NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 rabbitskin rabbitskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 29 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nsubj _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. 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