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title: “Let us go forth to sea In my canoe, and catch Some whales by torch… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let us go forth to sea In my canoe, and catch Some whales by torch light.” Who acts: you, us. 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 21

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“Let us go forth to sea In my canoe, and catch Some whales by torch light.”

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, go, catch · **To what, where:** us, canoe, whales

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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 (you, us), 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:pg78673:10:21
# text = “Let us go forth to sea In my canoe, and catch Some whales by torch light.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	In	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | my canoe |  | to sea; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | some whales |  |  |  | by torch light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=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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