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title: But as the giant went On through the woods, and on, The beaver ever… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the giant went On through the woods, and on, The beaver ever grew Larger and larger still, Till ’twas of monstrous size; Then he who bore it, took A mighty sapling. Who acts: beaver, Larger. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency t
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 47

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But as the giant went On through the woods, and on, The beaver ever grew Larger and larger still, Till ’twas of monstrous size; Then he who bore it, took A mighty sapling.

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**Who acts:** beaver, Larger · **What happens:** go, grow, bear, take · **To what, where:** woods, Larger, beaver, mighty sapling

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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 (beaver, Larger), 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:pg78673:10:47
# text = But as the giant went On through the woods, and on, The beaver ever grew Larger and larger still, Till ’twas of monstrous size; Then he who bore it, took A mighty sapling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	On	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	Larger	Larger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	’	'	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
37	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sapling	sapling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wood=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the beaver | Larger |  |  | till ’ twas of monstrous size; ever; still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location larger=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past | Larger | beaver |  |  | then | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | Larger *not said here* | a mighty sapling |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapling=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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