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description: They boiled water in these vessels by heating stones and putting them in the water. Who acts: roasters. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 62

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They boiled water in these vessels by heating stones and putting them in the water.

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**Who acts:** roasters · **What happens:** boil, heat, put · **To what, where:** water, stones, roasters

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roasters), 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:pg8122:20:62
# text = They boiled water in these vessels by heating stones and putting them in the water.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	boiled	boil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	heating	heat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past | roasters *= roaster* | water |  |  |  | in this vessels | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in vessel=Instrument |
| 2 | **heat** | gerund | roasters *= roaster* *not said here* | stones |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | roasters *= roaster* *not said here* | roasters *= roaster* |  | the water |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in water=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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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