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title: Then when the night came on They fished for whales again, And feaste… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then when the night came on They fished for whales again, And feasted as before And had the cold again; So, even as before, The grandmother lay dead Of cold, with Marten, too. Who acts: night, trees, grandmother. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with i
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 49

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Then when the night came on They fished for whales again, And feasted as before And had the cold again; So, even as before, The grandmother lay dead Of cold, with Marten, too.

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**Who acts:** night, trees, grandmother · **What happens:** come, fish, feast, have, lie

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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 (night, trees, grandmother), 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:pg78673:10:49
# text = Then when the night came on They fished for whales again, And feasted as before And had the cold again; So, even as before, The grandmother lay dead Of cold, with Marten, too.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fished	fish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	feasted	feast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	So	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	before	before	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Marten	Marten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	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 | **come** | past | the night |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fish** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | again | for whales | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for whale=Theme |
| 3 | **feast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** | past | the grandmother |  |  |  |  | with Marten; before, dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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