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title: The hoop of the drum is from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The hoop of the drum is from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, and from three to ten inches deep. Who acts: hoop. 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 166

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The hoop of the drum is from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, and from three to ten inches deep.

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**Who acts:** hoop · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** foot, three inches

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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 (hoop), 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:pg8122:21:166
# text = The hoop of the drum is from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, and from three to ten inches deep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	diameter	diameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the hoop of the drum |  |  | a foot |  | to eighteen inches in diameter | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the hoop of the drum *not said here* | three inches |  |  |  |  | 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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