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title: The "wa-ta-pe" kettle is made of the fibrous roots of the white ceda… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The "wa-ta-pe" kettle is made of the fibrous roots of the white cedar, interlaced and tightly woven. 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 63

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The "wa-ta-pe" kettle is made of the fibrous roots of the white cedar, interlaced and tightly woven.

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**What happens:** make, interlace, weave · **To what, where:** pe kettle

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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: 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:pg8122:20:63
# text = The "wa-ta-pe" kettle is made of the fibrous roots of the white cedar, interlaced and tightly woven.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wa	wa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fibrous	fibrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	interlaced	interlace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the pe kettle |  |  |  | of the fibrous roots of the white cedar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **interlace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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