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title: Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their peo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their people every week, Embarking secretly in birch canoe. Who acts: two lovely Indian girls. 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 25

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Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their people every week, Embarking secretly in birch canoe.

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**Who acts:** two lovely Indian girls · **What happens:** be, leave, embark · **To what, where:** people, birch canoe

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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 (two lovely Indian girls), 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:pg78673:14:25
# text = Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their people every week, Embarking secretly in birch canoe.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Embarking	embark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | two lovely Indian girls |  |  |  |  | ago, wont *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | two lovely Indian girls *not said here* | girls's people |  |  | week |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **embark** | gerund | two lovely Indian girls *not said here* |  |  | birch canoe |  | secretly *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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