Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 43

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

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 monsters	det
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 long	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 twelve	advmod
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feet	nummod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 long	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monsters	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thick	cc
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thick	nummod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 half	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 half	nummod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 one	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 feet	nummod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 long	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	parataxis
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jaws	amod
26	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jaws	amod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 teeth	case
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 full	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 look	cc
32	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 have	parataxis
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 fish	case
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	35 fish	compound
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 look	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 snake	cc
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 snake	compound
38	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fish	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 live	punct
40	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 look	parataxis
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 hills	case
42	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 live	obl
43	near	near	ADP	_	44 lakes	case
44	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hills	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 monsters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 43