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title: The flute called _Cho-tanka_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one mad… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The flute called _Cho-tanka_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one made of sumac, the pith of which is punched out, etc. The second variety is made of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane. Who acts: flute, one, sumac. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 170

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The flute called \_Cho-tanka\_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one made of sumac, the pith of which is punched out, etc. The second variety is made of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane.

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**Who acts:** flute, one, sumac · **What happens:** call, be, make, punch out · **To what, where:** flute, two varieties, second variety · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (flute, one, sumac), 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:pg8122:21:170
# text = The flute called _Cho-tanka_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one made of sumac, the pith of which is punched out, etc. The second variety is made of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tanka	tanka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pith	pith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sumac	sumac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pith	pith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	punched	punch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	amod	_	_
34	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **call** | participle |  | the flute *not said here* |  |  |  | \_ *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the flute |  |  |  |  | of two varieties | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle | one | two varieties *not said here* |  |  |  | of sumac | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset variety=Product |
| 4 | **punch out** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the pith and etc. | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 5 | **make** | present · passive | sumac *not said here* | the second variety |  |  |  | of the long bone of the wing or thigh of the swan or crane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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