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title: When hot, they are rolled within, and the door being closed, steam i… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: When hot, they are rolled within, and the door being closed, steam is made by pouring water on them. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 5

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When hot, they are rolled within, and the door being closed, steam is made by pouring water on them.

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**What happens:** roll, close, make, pour · **To what, where:** stones, door, steam, water

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. 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:pg8122:22:5
# text = When hot, they are rolled within, and the door being closed, steam is made by pouring water on them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	csubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present · passive |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 2 | **close** | gerund · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | steam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **pour** | gerund |  | water |  |  |  | on stones *= stone* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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