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title: One of these monsters lives in the hill just north of where the old… — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these monsters lives in the hill just north of where the old Indian portage from Lake Simcoe enters West Bay, Balsam Lake (now Portage Road). Who acts: One, old Indian portage. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Creation of Man., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 47

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One of these monsters lives in the hill just north of where the old Indian portage from Lake Simcoe enters West Bay, Balsam Lake (now Portage Road).

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**Who acts:** One, old Indian portage · **What happens:** live, enter · **To what, where:** hill, West Bay

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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 (One, old Indian portage), 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:pg76755:30:47
# text = One of these monsters lives in the hill just north of where the old Indian portage from Lake Simcoe enters West Bay, Balsam Lake (now Portage Road).
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	north	north	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Simcoe	Simcoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Balsam	Balsam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	Portage	Portage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | One of this monsters |  |  | the hill |  | north *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |
| 2 | **enter** | present | the old Indian portage from Lake |  | West Bay and Balsam Lake |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=Destination |

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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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