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title: And still the mighty Master Could sing the wonderful song Which is h… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And still the mighty Master Could sing the wonderful song Which is heard to any distance, Away over forests and mountains, Over the rolling rivers. Who acts: mighty Master. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 57

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And still the mighty Master Could sing the wonderful song Which is heard to any distance, Away over forests and mountains, Over the rolling rivers.

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**Who acts:** mighty Master · **What happens:** sing, hear, roll · **To what, where:** wonderful song, rolling rivers

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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 (mighty Master), 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:pg78673:12:57
# text = And still the mighty Master Could sing the wonderful song Which is heard to any distance, Away over forests and mountains, Over the rolling rivers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | could | the mighty Master | the wonderful song |  |  | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present · passive |  | the wonderful song |  | the rolling rivers |  | to any distance; away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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