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title: When spring-time came, the wizard of the little Indian town Took twe… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When spring-time came, the wizard of the little Indian town Took twenty men and started off to seek the long-lost lad. Who acts: spring time, wizard. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 120

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When spring-time came, the wizard of the little Indian town Took twenty men and started off to seek the long-lost lad.

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**Who acts:** spring time, wizard · **What happens:** come, take, start off, seek, lose · **To what, where:** twenty men, long lost lad

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring time, wizard), 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:pg78673:14:120
# text = When spring-time came, the wizard of the little Indian town Took twenty men and started off to seek the long-lost lad.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | spring time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the wizard of the little Indian town |  | twenty men |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 3 | **start off** | past | the wizard of the little Indian town *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the wizard of the little Indian town *not said here* | the long lost lad |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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