--- title: Of sport like this I never dreamed;” and yet the mother feared, And… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Of sport like this I never dreamed;” and yet the mother feared, And told her agèd husband that their son was lost to them; For he’d become _mʾdaulin_ and endowed with secret might. Who acts: I, mother, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:14:59 # text = Of sport like this I never dreamed;” and yet the mother feared, And told her agèd husband that their son was lost to them; For he’d become _mʾdaulin_ and endowed with secret might. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nmod _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 And and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 agèd agèd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 iobj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 For for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 mʾdaulin mʾdaulin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 endowed endow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **dream** | past | I | | | | | of sport like this | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fear** *in a quote* | past | the mother | | | | yet | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | man's mother *= mother* *not said here* | | mother's agèd husband | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | past · passive | | mother's agèd husband | serpents *= serpent* | | | serpents's son *nsubj:pass* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | son | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **become** *in a quote* | infinitive | son *not said here* | mʾdaulin | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **endow** *in a quote* | participle | son *not said here* | | | | | with secret | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with secret=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/14/)