Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 62

They boiled water in these vessels by heating stones and putting them in the water.

Who acts: roasters · What happens: boil, heat, put · To what, where: water, stones, roasters

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boiled	nsubj
2	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boiled	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 vessels	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 vessels	det
6	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boiled	obl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 heating	mark
8	heating	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boiled	advcl
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heating	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 putting	cc
11	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 heating	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 putting	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 putting	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	boil	past	roasters = roaster	water		in this vessels	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in vessel=Instrument
2	heat	gerund	roasters = roaster not said here	stones			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	put	gerund	roasters = roaster not said here	roasters = roaster	the water		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in water=Destination

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 62