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title: The Pitcher had a hatchet, And so with much ado She cut herself (or… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pitcher had a hatchet, And so with much ado She cut herself (or himself), In time away from the tree. Who acts: Pitcher, mighty. 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 88

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The Pitcher had a hatchet, And so with much ado She cut herself (or himself), In time away from the tree.

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**Who acts:** Pitcher, mighty · **What happens:** have, cut · **To what, where:** hatchet, mighty

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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 (Pitcher, mighty), 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:pg78673:12:88
# text = The Pitcher had a hatchet, And so with much ado She cut herself (or himself), In time away from the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pitcher	Pitcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Pitcher | a hatchet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | past | mighty | mighty |  |  |  | with much ado; sorceress *obl*; away *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with ado=Instrument |

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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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