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title: But which they had been trained to believe Was, “Hie at them!” — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But which they had been trained to believe Was, “Hie at them!” 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 26

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But which they had been trained to believe Was, “Hie at them!”

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**What happens:** train, believe, hie · **To what, where:** Was · **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: 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:pg78673:12:26
# text = But which they had been trained to believe Was, “Hie at them!”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hie	hie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; entrails *= entrail* *nsubj:pass* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive |  | Was |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer was=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hie** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at entrails *= entrail* | tree rules |

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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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