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title: The beaver seized his friend And drew him ’neath the stream And held… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The beaver seized his friend And drew him ’neath the stream And held him till he drowned, In order that his pains And struggle for his life Should not alarm the foe. Who acts: beaver, pains. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 166

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The beaver seized his friend And drew him ’neath the stream And held him till he drowned, In order that his pains And struggle for his life Should not alarm the foe.

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**Who acts:** beaver, pains · **What happens:** seize, draw, hold, drown, not alarm, pain · **To what, where:** friend, beaver, order

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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 (beaver, pains), 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:pg78673:14:166
# text = The beaver seized his friend And drew him ’neath the stream And held him till he drowned, In order that his pains And struggle for his life Should not alarm the foe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the beaver | beaver's friend |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the beaver *not said here* | beaver |  |  |  | neath the stream | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the beaver *not said here* | beaver |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **drown** | past | beaver |  |  | order |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **alarm** | should | beaver's pains and struggle for beaver's life |  |  |  |  | the foe *appos* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pain** |  | beaver |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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