Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 61

The Hohés are called "Stone roasters," because, until recently at least, they used "Wa-ta-pe" kettles and vessels made of birch bark in which they cooked their food.

Who acts: roasters · What happens: call, use, make, cook · To what, where: Hohés, pe kettles, vessels, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roasters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hohés	det
2	Hohés	Hohés	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 roasters	punct
6	Stone	stone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roasters	amod
7	roasters	roaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roasters	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 roasters	punct
10	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 recently	case
13	recently	recently	ADV	_	18 used	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 least	case
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 recently	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 used	nsubj
18	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 pe	punct
20	Wa	Wa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 pe	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Wa	punct
22	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pe	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ta	punct
24	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kettles	compound
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 pe	punct
26	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 used	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 vessels	cc
28	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kettles	conj
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 vessels	acl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bark	case
31	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	compound
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 cooked	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cooked	nsubj
36	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bark	acl:relcl
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 food	nmod:poss
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cooked	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		the Hohés	Stone roasters xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	use	past	roasters = roaster	pe kettles and vessels	recently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient
3	make	participle		vessels not said here	of birch bark	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	cook	past	roasters = roaster	roasters's food	in birch bark	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient in which=Instrument

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.

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 61

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Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 61