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title: Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids. — Ojibwa myths and tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids. Who acts: rapids. A sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 9

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Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids.

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**Who acts:** rapids · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rapids), 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:pg76755:6:9
# text = Near the mouth of the Nottawasaga River there are rapids.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Nottawasaga	Nottawasaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | rapids |  |  | the mouth of the Nottawasaga River; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mouth=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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