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title: The water grew so shoal That soon she heard the song Of many Clams,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The water grew so shoal That soon she heard the song Of many Clams, who lay Deep shelled below the sand. Who acts: water, That, shoal, many Clams. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 115

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The water grew so shoal That soon she heard the song Of many Clams, who lay Deep shelled below the sand.

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**Who acts:** water, That, shoal, many Clams · **What happens:** grow, shoal, hear, lie, shell, sing · **To what, where:** song, sand

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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 (water, That, shoal, many Clams), 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:pg78673:10:115
# text = The water grew so shoal That soon she heard the song Of many Clams, who lay Deep shelled below the sand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	shoal	shoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Clams	clam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	shelled	shell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
20	below	below	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the water |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoal** |  | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | shoal | the song of many Clams |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | past | many Clams |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shell** | participle | many Clams *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  | deep *property* | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** |  | many Clams |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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