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title: Whene’er he left this plate Kulóskap always knew The place where it… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Whene’er he left this plate Kulóskap always knew The place where it was laid, And by a glance thereat Could tell whate’er had happed Unto his family. Who acts: Whene’er. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 98

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Whene’er he left this plate Kulóskap always knew The place where it was laid, And by a glance thereat Could tell whate’er had happed Unto his family.

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**Who acts:** Whene’er · **What happens:** leave, know, lay, tell, hap · **To what, where:** plate, place, whate’er · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Whene’er), 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:pg78673:10:98
# text = Whene’er he left this plate Kulóskap always knew The place where it was laid, And by a glance thereat Could tell whate’er had happed Unto his family.
1	Whene’er	whene'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	thereat	thereat	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	whate’er	whate'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	happed	hap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
26	Unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Whene’er *= whene'er* | this plate |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | Whene’er | the place |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  | plate |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Whene’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a glance; thereat *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hap** | past · perfect · passive |  | whate’er |  |  |  | unto Whene’er's family | tree rules |

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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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