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title: Then at night they camped, and expected The chief who w’ould come to… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at night they camped, and expected The chief who w’ould come to them, And then the evil Pitcher Ruled them as Sagamore. Who acts: Cats, chief, evil Pitcher. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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Then at night they camped, and expected The chief who w’ould come to them, And then the evil Pitcher Ruled them as Sagamore.

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**Who acts:** Cats, chief, evil Pitcher · **What happens:** camp, expect, come, rule · **To what, where:** Cats

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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 (Cats, chief, evil Pitcher), 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:pg78673:12:55
# text = Then at night they camped, and expected The chief who w’ould come to them, And then the evil Pitcher Ruled them as Sagamore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	camped	camp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	w’ould	w'ould	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Pitcher	Pitcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Sagamore	Sagamore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **camp** | past | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  | then; night |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** | past | Cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** |  | the chief |  | Cats *= cat* |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **rule** | past | the evil Pitcher | Cats *= cat* |  |  | then | as Sagamore | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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