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title: The place where they were to play Was the sandy stony plain Which li… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The place where they were to play Was the sandy stony plain Which lies on the bend of the river. Who acts: brothers, sandy stony plain. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 65

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The place where they were to play Was the sandy stony plain Which lies on the bend of the river.

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**Who acts:** brothers, sandy stony plain · **What happens:** play, lie · **To what, where:** bend, place

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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 (brothers, sandy stony plain), 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:pg78673:11:65
# text = The place where they were to play Was the sandy stony plain Which lies on the bend of the river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Was	was	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | was the sandy stony plain | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the sandy stony plain |  |  | the bend of the river |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bend=Location |

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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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