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title: Then, having made a canoe, The Master and his mother, Dame Bear, and… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, having made a canoe, The Master and his mother, Dame Bear, and Marten, his brother, Went forth on a mighty river Which was in its beginning Both broad and beautiful. Who acts: Marten, mighty river. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its depend
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

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Then, having made a canoe, The Master and his mother, Dame Bear, and Marten, his brother, Went forth on a mighty river Which was in its beginning Both broad and beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Marten, mighty river · **What happens:** make, go, be · **To what, where:** canoe, mighty river, beginning

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marten, mighty river), 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:pg78673:13:10
# text = Then, having made a canoe, The Master and his mother, Dame Bear, and Marten, his brother, Went forth on a mighty river Which was in its beginning Both broad and beautiful.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	Marten	Marten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
34	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc:preconj	_	_
35	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund · perfect |  | a canoe |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset canoe=Product |
| 2 | **go** | past | Marten |  |  | a mighty river and canoe's beginning |  | forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on river=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a mighty river and canoe's beginning |  |  |  | in canoe's beginning | canoe *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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