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title: She bore him on her back, The child’s back lay against her, So that,… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: She bore him on her back, The child’s back lay against her, So that, while she looked forward, He could only look behind. Who acts: Marten, back, Brother. 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 70

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She bore him on her back, The child’s back lay against her, So that, while she looked forward, He could only look behind.

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**Who acts:** Marten, back, Brother · **What happens:** bear, lie, look · **To what, where:** Brother, back

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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 (Marten, back, Brother), 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:pg78673:12:70
# text = She bore him on her back, The child’s back lay against her, So that, while she looked forward, He could only look behind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	So	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
22	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | Marten | Brother |  | Marten's back |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the child's back |  |  |  |  | against Marten | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against she=Location |
| 3 | **look** | past | Marten |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | could | Brother |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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