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title: In small lakes and bays of larger lakes they move around with great… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In small lakes and bays of larger lakes they move around with great swiftness, forcing the weeds and floating sticks, etc., up high on the shore, similar to swirling your hand around in a wash basin. 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 45

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In small lakes and bays of larger lakes they move around with great swiftness, forcing the weeds and floating sticks, etc., up high on the shore, similar to swirling your hand around in a wash basin.

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**Who acts:** monsters · **What happens:** move around, force, float, swirl around · **To what, where:** small lakes, weeds, sticks, hand, wash basin

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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:pg76755:30:45
# text = In small lakes and bays of larger lakes they move around with great swiftness, forcing the weeds and floating sticks, etc., up high on the shore, similar to swirling your hand around in a wash basin.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bays	bay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
21	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	swirling	swirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	around	around	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move around** | present | monsters *= monster* |  |  | small lakes and bays of larger lakes |  | with great swiftness; on the shore; around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in lake=Source on shore=Trajectory |
| 2 | **force** | gerund | monsters *= monster* *not said here* | the weeds |  |  |  | etc. *conj* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Recipient |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | monsters *= monster* *not said here* | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Agent |
| 4 | **swirl around** | gerund | monsters *= monster* *not said here* | your hand |  | a wash basin |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |

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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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