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title: The witch upon the way Sought to beguile the Lord with loving words… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The witch upon the way Sought to beguile the Lord with loving words To which he made no answer, knowing well What kind of passenger he had on board. Who acts: witch, Lord. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 20

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The witch upon the way Sought to beguile the Lord with loving words To which he made no answer, knowing well What kind of passenger he had on board.

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**Who acts:** witch, Lord · **What happens:** seek, beguile, make, know, have · **To what, where:** Lord, answer, kind, board · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Lord), 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:pg78673:11:20
# text = The witch upon the way Sought to beguile the Lord with loving words To which he made no answer, knowing well What kind of passenger he had on board.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	beguile	beguile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	To	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | the witch upon the way |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beguile** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the witch upon the way *not said here* | the Lord |  |  |  | with loving words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lord=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past | Lord | no answer |  |  |  | to loving words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | past | Lord | what kind of passenger |  | board |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |

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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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