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title: But Kulóskap put the devils One by one as he found them Under a wood… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But Kulóskap put the devils One by one as he found them Under a wooden platter Which was lying close beside him. Who acts: Kulóskap, wooden platter. 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 8

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But Kulóskap put the devils One by one as he found them Under a wooden platter Which was lying close beside him.

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**Who acts:** Kulóskap, wooden platter · **What happens:** put, find, lie · **To what, where:** devils, wooden platter

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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 (Kulóskap, wooden platter), 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:pg78673:12:8
# text = But Kulóskap put the devils One by one as he found them Under a wooden platter Which was lying close beside him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	platter	platter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Kulóskap |  | the devils |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent devil=Goal |
| 2 | **find** | past | Kulóskap | devils *= devil* |  | a wooden platter |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | a wooden platter |  |  |  |  | beside Kulóskap; close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |

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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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