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title: Then Kitpûsâgunâû, Lifting the largest of them, Put it upon his head… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Kitpûsâgunâû, Lifting the largest of them, Put it upon his head, And it became a canoe. Who acts: Kitpûsâgunâû, you, beach. 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 24

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Then Kitpûsâgunâû, Lifting the largest of them, Put it upon his head, And it became a canoe.

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**Who acts:** Kitpûsâgunâû, you, beach · **What happens:** lift, put, become · **To what, where:** largest, Kitpûsâgunâû, head, canoe

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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 (Kitpûsâgunâû, you, beach), 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:pg78673:10:24
# text = Then Kitpûsâgunâû, Lifting the largest of them, Put it upon his head, And it became a canoe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Kitpûsâgunâû	Kitpûsâgunâû	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund | Kitpûsâgunâû *not said here* | the largest of whales |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent large=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | Kitpûsâgunâû |  | Kitpûsâgunâû's head |  | beach *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon head=Destination |
| 3 | **become** | past | beach | a canoe |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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