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title: And so The Master paddled; ere long The canoe passed o’er a whale. — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And so The Master paddled; ere long The canoe passed o’er a whale. Who acts: Master, canoe. 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 27

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And so The Master paddled; ere long The canoe passed o’er a whale.

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**Who acts:** Master, canoe · **What happens:** paddle, pass · **To what, where:** whale

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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 (Master, canoe), 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:pg78673:10:27
# text = And so The Master paddled; ere long The canoe passed o’er a whale.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	o’er	o'er	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paddle** | past | the Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the canoe | a whale |  |  |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whale=Trajectory |

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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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