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title: His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And m… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And marked that when he lay at night no sleep would come to him, But always after little time he’d rise and steal away, Till daylight dawned and then he would come creeping back to bed. Who acts: mother saw, arrow, sleep. A sentence of «
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 49

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His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And marked that when he lay at night no sleep would come to him, But always after little time he’d rise and steal away, Till daylight dawned and then he would come creeping back to bed.

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**Who acts:** mother saw, arrow, sleep · **What happens:** fear, begin, watch, mark, lie, come · **To what, where:** lad, arrow, bed

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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 (mother saw, arrow, sleep), 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:pg78673:14:49
# text = His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And marked that when he lay at night no sleep would come to him, But always after little time he’d rise and steal away, Till daylight dawned and then he would come creeping back to bed.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	parataxis	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
49	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	xcomp	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | arrow's mother saw and straightway |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **begin** | past | arrow's mother saw and straightway *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | arrow's mother saw and straightway *not said here* | the lad |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme |
| 4 | **mark** | past | arrow's mother saw and straightway *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** | past | arrow |  |  |  | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | would | no sleep |  | arrow |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | arrow |  |  |  | time | always *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **rise** | infinitive | arrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **steal away** | infinitive | arrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **dawn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | daylight *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **come** | would | arrow |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **creep back** | gerund | arrow *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination |

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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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