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title: When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian hue had faded; And soon she gave birth to offspring But her children all were serpents. Who acts: furs, Indian hue, hue, children. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 13

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When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian hue had faded; And soon she gave birth to offspring But her children all were serpents.

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**Who acts:** furs, Indian hue, hue, children · **What happens:** return, find, fade, give, be · **To what, where:** silver lily, birth, offspring, serpents

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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 (furs, Indian hue, hue, children), 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:pg78673:14:13
# text = When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian hue had faded; And soon she gave birth to offspring But her children all were serpents.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | furs *= fur* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | furs *= fur* |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fade** | past · perfect | wife's Indian hue | a silver lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lily=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | hue | birth | offspring |  |  | soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to offspring=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | wife's children | serpents |  |  |  | all *property* | 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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