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title: The rock on which she sat is just like a big chair and is on the Ram… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rock on which she sat is just like a big chair and is on the Rama Reserve. Who acts: beaver, rock. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 8

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The rock on which she sat is just like a big chair and is on the Rama Reserve.

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**Who acts:** beaver, rock · **What happens:** sit, be · **To what, where:** rock, Rama Reserve

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beaver, rock), 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:pg76755:23:8
# text = The rock on which she sat is just like a big chair and is on the Rama Reserve.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Rama	Rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | beaver |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the rock |  |  |  |  | like a big chair and the Rama Reserve | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the rock *not said here* |  |  | the Rama Reserve |  |  | 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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