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title: These monsters, which are about twelve feet long and about one and o… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These monsters, which are about twelve feet long and about one and one-half to two feet thick, and which have long jaws full of teeth, and look like half fish and half snake, live in hills near lakes. Who acts: monsters. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 43

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These monsters, which are about twelve feet long and about one and one-half to two feet thick, and which have long jaws full of teeth, and look like half fish and half snake, live in hills near lakes.

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**Who acts:** monsters · **What happens:** be, have, look, live · **To what, where:** long jaws, hills, monsters

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monsters), 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:pg76755:30:43
# text = These monsters, which are about twelve feet long and about one and one-half to two feet thick, and which have long jaws full of teeth, and look like half fish and half snake, live in hills near lakes.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
20	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	35	compound	_	_
35	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	38	compound	_	_
38	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	near	near	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this monsters |  |  |  |  | twelve feet *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this monsters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | long jaws |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like half fish and half snake | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | present |  |  |  | hills near lakes |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |

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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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