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title: But the journey lasted long, For what seemed unto the Master To be t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But the journey lasted long, For what seemed unto the Master To be ten feet, was really Ten miles--and the wind was high, And the waves were wild and beat them, For the witch had raised a storm; And it was late in the evening Before they reached the land. Who acts: journey, wind, waves. A sentence o
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 65

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But the journey lasted long, For what seemed unto the Master To be ten feet, was really Ten miles--and the wind was high, And the waves were wild and beat them, For the witch had raised a storm; And it was late in the evening Before they reached the land.

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**Who acts:** journey, wind, waves · **What happens:** last, seem, be, beat, raise, reach · **To what, where:** ten feet, Ten miles, waves, storm, land

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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 (journey, wind, waves), 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:pg78673:12:65
# text = But the journey lasted long, For what seemed unto the Master To be ten feet, was really Ten miles--and the wind was high, And the waves were wild and beat them, For the witch had raised a storm; And it was late in the evening Before they reached the land.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	For	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	parataxis	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
46	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the journey |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto the Master; what *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | ten feet and Ten miles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Ten miles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the waves |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **beat** | present | the waves *not said here* | waves *= wave* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 8 | **raise** | past · perfect |  | a storm |  |  |  | for the witch | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | wind |  |  |  | evening | late *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **reach** | past | waves *= wave* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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