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title: The Chân-che-ga--is a drum or "Wooden Kettle." — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chân-che-ga--is a drum or "Wooden Kettle." Who acts: Chân che. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 165

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The Chân-che-ga--is a drum or "Wooden Kettle."

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**Who acts:** Chân che · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** drum

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chân che), 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:pg8122:21:165
# text = The Chân-che-ga--is a drum or "Wooden Kettle."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Chân	Chân	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	che	che	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ga	ga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Kettle	Kettle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Chân che | a drum or Wooden Kettle |  |  |  | Wooden Kettle *conj* | tree rules |

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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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