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title: Now when they came to the beach There were many mighty rocks Lying s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when they came to the beach There were many mighty rocks Lying scattered here and there. Who acts: whales, many mighty rocks. 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 23

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Now when they came to the beach There were many mighty rocks Lying scattered here and there.

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**Who acts:** whales, many mighty rocks · **What happens:** come, be, lie, scatter · **To what, where:** beach

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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 (whales, many mighty rocks), 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:pg78673:10:23
# text = Now when they came to the beach There were many mighty rocks Lying scattered here and there.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
13	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | whales *= whale* |  |  | the beach | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | many mighty rocks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | many mighty rocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scatter** | participle | many mighty rocks *not said here* |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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