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title: He jumped up, threw off the rabbitskin blanket, and instead of his w… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycl
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 158

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He jumped up, threw off the rabbitskin blanket, and instead of his wife there lay the old rotten spruce stump swarming with ants.

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**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

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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 (jealousy, wife, old rotten 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:pg66509:7:158
# text = He jumped up, threw off the rabbitskin blanket, and instead of his wife there lay the old rotten spruce stump swarming with ants.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rabbitskin	rabbitskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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