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title: Then the Master sang the song, The magic song which changes All crea… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Master sang the song, The magic song which changes All creatures to other forms, Which changed the Three and their father Into the Chinames, A fish which is long and broad As a man, and they all went headlong Down in the flood to the ocean Where they must dwell forever And are caught unto t
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 75

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Then the Master sang the song, The magic song which changes All creatures to other forms, Which changed the Three and their father Into the Chinames, A fish which is long and broad As a man, and they all went headlong Down in the flood to the ocean Where they must dwell forever And are caught unto this day.

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**Who acts:** Master, magic song, other forms, fish, Three · **What happens:** sing, change, be, go down, dwell, catch · **To what, where:** song, creatures, Three, Chinames

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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 (Master, magic song, other forms, fish), 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:pg78673:11:75
# text = Then the Master sang the song, The magic song which changes All creatures to other forms, Which changed the Three and their father Into the Chinames, A fish which is long and broad As a man, and they all went headlong Down in the flood to the ocean Where they must dwell forever And are caught unto this day.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Chinames	chiname	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	As	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
44	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	acl:relcl	_	_
57	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
61	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	det	_	_
63	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Master | the song |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | present | the magic song | all creatures and a fish |  |  |  | to other forms | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | past | other forms | the Three and Three's father |  |  |  | into the Chinames *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent three=Patient into chiname=Result |
| 4 | **is** | present | a fish |  |  |  |  | as a man; long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go down** | past | Three |  |  |  |  | in the flood to the ocean; down, headlong *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flood=Attribute |
| 7 | **dwell** | must | Three |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **catch** | present · passive | Three *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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