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title: [17] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south o… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [17] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south of Smoothwater lake (see map above referred to). Who acts: big snake, Smoothwater lake, map. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., with its dependency t
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 59

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\[17\] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south of Smoothwater lake (see map above referred to).

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**Who acts:** big snake, Smoothwater lake, map · **What happens:** become, see, refer, port · **To what, where:** 17, map, Smoothwater lake

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big snake, Smoothwater lake, map), 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:pg66509:21:59
# text = [17] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south of Smoothwater lake (see map above referred to).
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	south	south	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Smoothwater	Smoothwater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this big snake | 17 |  |  |  | a high rocky ridge on the portage of Smoothwater lake *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Smoothwater lake *not said here* | map |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refer** | participle | map *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **port** |  |  | Smoothwater lake |  |  |  |  | nom portage «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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