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title: So when the evening came, he locked him in And would not let him for… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the evening came, he locked him in And would not let him forth to roam in spite of all his prayers. Who acts: evening, husband. 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 61

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So when the evening came, he locked him in And would not let him forth to roam in spite of all his prayers.

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**Who acts:** evening, husband · **What happens:** come, lock, not let, roam, spite, pray · **To what, where:** WORM, husband, spite, prayers

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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 (evening, husband), 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:pg78673:14:61
# text = So when the evening came, he locked him in And would not let him forth to roam in spite of all his prayers.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	roam	roam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lock** | past | husband | WORM |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **let** | would | husband *not said here* | husband |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roam** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  | spite of husband's prayers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Trajectory |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | husband's prayers |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **pray** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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