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title: The Little Boy kidnapped by the Bear 239 VII. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Little Boy kidnapped by the Bear 239 VII. Who acts: Little Boy. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 61

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The Little Boy kidnapped by the Bear 239 VII.

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**Who acts:** Little Boy · **What happens:** kidnap

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Boy), 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:pg78673:1:62
# text = The Little Boy kidnapped by the Bear 239 VII.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kidnapped	kidnap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	239	239	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	VII	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kidnap** | past | the Little Boy |  |  |  |  | by the Bear and VII | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (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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