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title: (It is about 5 or 6 feet above water and is about 1 ft. high.) — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: (It is about 5 or 6 feet above water and is about 1 ft. high.) Who acts: figure, 1. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.), sentence 9

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(It is about 5 or 6 feet above water and is about 1 ft. high.)

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**Who acts:** figure, 1 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 5 feet, water

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 3.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, 1), 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:pg76755:10:9
# text = (It is about 5 or 6 feet above water and is about 1 ft. high.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
15	ft.	ft.	ADV	FW	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | figure | 5 feet |  | water |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | 1 |  |  |  |  | ft., high *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:** «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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