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description: She came to them in the morning, But a fragment from the tree Ever adhered to her back: So they laughed at her in scorn, And sang together these words: Who acts: mighty, fragment, Cats. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

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She came to them in the morning, But a fragment from the tree Ever adhered to her back: So they laughed at her in scorn, And sang together these words:

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**Who acts:** mighty, fragment, Cats · **What happens:** come, adhere, laugh, sing · **To what, where:** Cats, words

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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, fragment, Cats), 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:pg78673:12:90
# text = She came to them in the morning, But a fragment from the tree Ever adhered to her back: So they laughed at her in scorn, And sang together these words:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	adhered	adhere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	So	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | mighty |  | Cats *= cat* |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **adhere** | past | a fragment from the tree |  |  |  | ever | to mighty's back | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to back=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | at mighty; in scorn | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scorn=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Cats *= cat* *not said here* | this words |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=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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