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Subject: analysis on Ana Carolina's text

Author:
Joana Arzberger

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Date Posted: 19:40:04 10/02/09 Fri
In reply to: Ana Carolina Ferreira 's message, "Re: Instructions for the Morphology Online Seminar" on 14:24:26 10/02/09 Fri

Ana Carolina Ferreira’s text
Araby - James Joyce

Every [qualifier] morning [-plural] I [pronoun][1st person] [-plural] lay [-past] on [prep] the [det] floor [noun] in [prep] the front parlour watching [watch][+ing] [-past] her [3rd person] [-plural][possessive] door [noun]. The blind [-plural] was [be][+plural][+past] pulled [-ed][pull][+past] down to within an [prep] inch of the sash [noun] so that I could [modal] [+past]not be [be][+infinitive] seen[see] [+past] [+participle]. When she[3rd person][-plural]came[come][+past] out on the doorstep[door][step] [-plural] my [1st person][-plural][possessive]heart [noun][-plural] leaped[leap][-ed][+past]. I ran [run][+past] to the [det] hall [-plural], seized [seize][-ed][+past]my books[-s][+plural] and followed [-ed][follow][+past][1st person]her. I kept her brown [qualifier] figure always [adv] in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged[-ed][diverge][+past], I quickened [-en][-ed][quick][+past]my pace and passed [-ed][pass][+plural] her. This [?][-plural] happened [ed][-plural][+past] morning after morning. I had [+past][1st person][-plural] never spoken[speak][+past][+participle] to her, except for a few casual words[-s][+plural], and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish [ish][fool][adj] blood[-plural].

Her image[noun] accompanied [-ed][accompany][+past][-plural] me even in places the most hostile [comparative] to romance. On Saturday evenings [-s][evening][+plural] when my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry [+infinitive] some[?] of the parcels. We walked through the flaring [-ing][flare] streets[s][+plural], jostled [-ed][+past] by drunken[en][drink][+plural][+past][+participle] men [+plural] and bargaining [-ing][bargain][-past] women [+plural], amid the curses of labourers[s] [-er][+plural], the shrill litanies [s][litany][+plural] of shop-boys [shop][s][+plural] who stood [stand][+past] on guard by the barrels[s][+plural] of pigs' [s][+genitive] cheeks[s][+plural], the nasal chanting[-ing][chant][qualifier] of street-singers[street][sing][s][-er][+plural], who sang [sing][+past] a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles [s][+past} in our native land. These [?][+plural] noises [s][+plural] converged [-ed][+past][+plural]in a single sensation [-tion][sense] of life for me: I imagined [-ed][+past] that I bore [bear][+past] my chalice safely [-ly][safe]through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips [s][lip][+plural] at moments [s][moment][+plural] in strange prayers[s][-er][pray][+plural] and praises [s][praise][+plural] which I myself [my][self][+reflexive] did [do][+past] not understand [+infinitive]. My eyes [s][+plural] were [be][3rd person][+plural][+past] often full of tears [s][tear][+plural] (I could [modal][+plural] not tell why) and at times[s][time][+plural] a flood [-plural] from my heart [-plural] seemed[-ed][+plural] to pour [+infinitive] itself [it][self][+reflexive] out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did [do][+past] not know [+infinitive] whether I would [modal][+past] ever speak [+infinitive] to her or not or, if I spoke [speak][+past][-plural] to her, how I could tell her of my confused [-ed][confuse][-past] adoration[-tion][adore]. But my body was [be][1st person][+plural] [+past] like a harp and her words [s][+plural] and gestures [s][+past] were [be][3rd person][+plural][+past] like fingers [s][finger][+plural] running [-ing][run][-past] upon the wires [s][wire][+plural].
One evening I went into [in][to] the back drawing[-ing][draw][qualifier]-room in which the priest had [have][+past] died[-ed][die][+past]. It was [be][1st person][+plural] [+past] a dark rainy [-y][rain] evening [-ing][eve][noun]and there was [be][1st person][+plural] [+past] no sound in the house. Through one of the broken [break][+past][+participle] panes [s][pane][+plural] I heard the rain impinge [im-][pinge] upon the earth, the fine incessant [?] needles [s][needle][+plural] of water playing in the sodden [-en][sod][qualifier]beds [s][bed][+plural]. Some distant lamp or lighted [-ed][light][-past] window gleamed [-ed][gleam][+past] below me. I was thankful [-ful][thank][adv]that I could[+modal][+past] see [-past] so little.

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