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title: The great trees in the forest Were rent with frost, and the sound Wa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The great trees in the forest Were rent with frost, and the sound Was like thunder above, but still The Master and “He who was born After his mother’s death.” Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

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The great trees in the forest Were rent with frost, and the sound Was like thunder above, but still The Master and “He who was born After his mother’s death.”

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** rend, bear, die · **To what, where:** great trees, sound

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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 (mother), 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:pg78673:10:38
# text = The great trees in the forest Were rent with frost, and the sound Was like thunder above, but still The Master and “He who was born After his mother’s death.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	above	above	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	After	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | past · passive |  | the great trees in the forest |  |  |  | with frost; Was thunder  the sound *conj*; the Master *parataxis* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with frost=Instrument |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | sound |  |  | after sound's mother's death | the Master *nsubj:pass* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* |  | sound's mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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