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title: So when the time had come He called his dogs, and went Down to the s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the time had come He called his dogs, and went Down to the shore and looked Far o’er the rolling sea, And sang the magic song Which all the Whales obey. Who acts: time, KULÓSKAP, Whales. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 104

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So when the time had come He called his dogs, and went Down to the shore and looked Far o’er the rolling sea, And sang the magic song Which all the Whales obey.

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**Who acts:** time, KULÓSKAP, Whales · **What happens:** come, call, go down, look, roll, sing · **To what, where:** dogs, magic song · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, KULÓSKAP, Whales), 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:pg78673:10:104
# text = So when the time had come He called his dogs, and went Down to the shore and looked Far o’er the rolling sea, And sang the magic song Which all the Whales obey.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* |  | KULÓSKAP's dogs |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
| 3 | **go down** | past | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the shore; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **look** | past | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | o'er the rolling sea; far *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | KULÓSKAP *= kulóskap* *not said here* | the magic song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 7 | **obey** | present | all Whales | the magic song |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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