Ojibwa myths and tales, The Creation of Man., sentence 47
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 · What happens: live, enter · To what, where: hill, West Bay
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.
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 monsters | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 monsters | det |
| 4 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 north | advmod |
| 10 | north | north | ADV | _ | 5 lives | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 where | case |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 enters | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 portage | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 portage | amod |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 portage | amod |
| 16 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enters | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Lake | case |
| 18 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 portage | nmod |
| 19 | Simcoe | Simcoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lake | flat |
| 20 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 north | advcl |
| 21 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bay | compound |
| 22 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 enters | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lake | punct |
| 24 | Balsam | Balsam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Lake | compound |
| 25 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bay | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 Road | punct |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 Road | advmod |
| 28 | Portage | Portage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Road | compound |
| 29 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Lake | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 Road | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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