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title: So he took the gift which they offered, But, instead of putting it o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took the gift which they offered, But, instead of putting it on, Cried out to his dogs, “_Cuss! cuss! Who acts: Lord, entrails. 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 24

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So he took the gift which they offered, But, instead of putting it on, Cried out to his dogs, “\_Cuss! cuss!

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**Who acts:** Lord, entrails · **What happens:** take, offer, put on, cry out · **To what, where:** gift, dogs

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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 (Lord, entrails), 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:pg78673:12:24
# text = So he took the gift which they offered, But, instead of putting it on, Cried out to his dogs, “_Cuss! cuss!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Cuss	cuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	cuss	cuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Lord | the gift |  |  |  | Cuss cuss *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | past | entrails *= entrail* | the gift |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **put on** | gerund | Lord *not said here* | gift |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle | Lord *not said here* |  | Lord's dogs |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient |

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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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