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title: The skin covering is stretched over one end making a drum with one e… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The skin covering is stretched over one end making a drum with one end only. 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 167

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The skin covering is stretched over one end making a drum with one end only.

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**What happens:** stretch, make · **To what, where:** skin covering, one end, 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: 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:pg8122:21:167
# text = The skin covering is stretched over one end making a drum with one end only.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present · passive |  | the skin covering |  |  | over one end |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | a drum |  |  | with one end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drum=Product |

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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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