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title: These dogs had been so trained That when called off they fought More… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These dogs had been so trained That when called off they fought More fiercely than before, And when told not to bite They ever bit the more. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

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These dogs had been so trained That when called off they fought More fiercely than before, And when told not to bite They ever bit the more.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** have, be, call off, fight, tell, not bite · **To what, where:** dogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs), 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:pg78673:12:17
# text = These dogs had been so trained That when called off they fought More fiercely than before, And when told not to bite They ever bit the more.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	trained	train	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle · passive |  | this dogs |  |  |  | That *obj*; train *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call off** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **bite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bite** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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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