Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 171

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 · What happens: call, bubble, give, blow, stop · To what, where: first _, chotanka, tremulous note · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 _	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 _	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 _	det
6	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
7	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 _	acl
8	chotanka	chotanka	X	Foreign=Yes	7 bubbling	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 gives	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 note	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 note	det
12	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 note	amod
13	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gives	nsubj
15	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 blown	advmod
17	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gives	ccomp
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 stopped	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 holes	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 holes	det
21	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stopped	nsubj
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blown	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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 4, sentence 171

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 171