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title: So all the Indian braves Embarked in their canoes, Went down one str… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So all the Indian braves Embarked in their canoes, Went down one stream, then up Another, paddling soft, Avoiding any sound. Who acts: Indian braves. 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 159

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So all the Indian braves Embarked in their canoes, Went down one stream, then up Another, paddling soft, Avoiding any sound.

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**Who acts:** Indian braves · **What happens:** embark, go down, paddle, avoid · **To what, where:** Indian braves, canoes, one stream, sound

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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 (Indian braves), 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:pg78673:14:159
# text = So all the Indian braves Embarked in their canoes, Went down one stream, then up Another, paddling soft, Avoiding any sound.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	Embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	paddling	paddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embark** | participle |  | all Indian braves *not said here* |  | braves's canoes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | past | all Indian braves | one stream |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **paddle** | gerund | all Indian braves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **avoid** | gerund | all Indian braves *not said here* | any sound |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sound=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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