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title: But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful in a wailing chant: “No more, no more may we turn back again, For mortal eye hath seen us in our sin.” Who acts: damsels, Indians, we. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14, with its depend
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 32

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But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful in a wailing chant: “No more, no more may we turn back again, For mortal eye hath seen us in our sin.”

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**Who acts:** damsels, Indians, we · **What happens:** draw, hear, sing, turn back, see · **To what, where:** Indians, more, sin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (damsels, Indians, we), 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:pg78673:14:32
# text = But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful in a wailing chant: “No more, no more may we turn back again, For mortal eye hath seen us in our sin.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	woful	woful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
40	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | damsels *= damsel* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | damsels *= damsel* | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn back** *in a quote* | may | we |  |  |  | again |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | no more |  | our sin |  | mortal eye *nsubj:pass*; us *obj* | 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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