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title: And, as my manuscript exactly fitted the cover, I placed it therein,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And, as my manuscript exactly fitted the cover, I placed it therein, where it rested for many years, undisturbed even by a thought save when it occurred to me how the great and savage master, who was himself a poet, would have rejoiced among Indians and liked their lyrics! Who acts: manuscript, I, c
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 99

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And, as my manuscript exactly fitted the cover, I placed it therein, where it rested for many years, undisturbed even by a thought save when it occurred to me how the great and savage master, who was himself a poet, would have rejoiced among Indians and liked their lyrics!

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**Who acts:** manuscript, I, cover, great master, manuscripts · **What happens:** fit, place, rest, save, occur, be · **To what, where:** cover, great master, me, Master, lyrics

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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 (manuscript, I, cover, great master), 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:pg78673:1:100
# text = And, as my manuscript exactly fitted the cover, I placed it therein, where it rested for many years, undisturbed even by a thought save when it occurred to me how the great and savage master, who was himself a poet, would have rejoiced among Indians and liked their lyrics!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	undisturbed	undisturbed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux	_	_
49	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
50	among	among	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	lyrics	lyric	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | past | my manuscript | the cover |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | past | I | cover |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | past | cover |  |  |  | year |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | cover *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a thought | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **occur** | past | cover | the great master | me |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the great master | Master |  |  |  | a poet *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **rejoice** | would · perfect | cover *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among Indians | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **like** | past | cover *not said here* | manuscripts's lyrics |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lyric=Theme |
| 9 | **lyric** |  | manuscripts *= manuscript* |  |  |  |  |  | nom lyric «communication transitive»: poss=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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