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title: It is said she turned to a toad Which bears to this day on its back… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said she turned to a toad Which bears to this day on its back A hump, or the piece of wood Which was carried away from the tree. Who acts: back. 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 92

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It is said she turned to a toad Which bears to this day on its back A hump, or the piece of wood Which was carried away from the tree.

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**Who acts:** back · **What happens:** say, turn, carry away · **To what, where:** tree, hump, piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (back), 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:pg78673:12:92
# text = It is said she turned to a toad Which bears to this day on its back A hump, or the piece of wood Which was carried away from the tree.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | tree |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | past | back | a hump |  |  | day | to a toad  which bears *result*; the piece of wood *parataxis* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to toad=Result |
| 3 | **carry away** | past · passive |  | the piece of wood |  | the tree |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from tree=Initial\_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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