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title: They call the first the _bubbling chotanka_ from the tremulous note… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: They call the first the _bubbling chotanka_ from the tremulous note it gives when blown with all the holes stopped. Who acts: varieties, first _, flute, holes. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 171

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They call the first the \_bubbling chotanka\_ from the tremulous note it gives when blown with all the holes stopped.

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**Who acts:** varieties, first \_, flute, holes · **What happens:** call, bubble, give, blow, stop · **To what, where:** first \_, chotanka, tremulous note · **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 (varieties, first \_, flute, holes), 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:pg8122:21:171
# text = They call the first the _bubbling chotanka_ from the tremulous note it gives when blown with all the holes stopped.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	chotanka	chotanka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | varieties *= variety* | the first \_ |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent \_=Recipient |
| 2 | **bubble** | gerund | the first \_ *not said here* | chotanka |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chotanka=Source |
| 3 | **give** | present | flute |  |  | the tremulous note |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** | participle | flute *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **stop** | past | all holes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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