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title: The youth was amazed beyond measure That one who appeared but an inf… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth was amazed beyond measure That one who appeared but an infant Should know all about his affairs, But he passed on in silence and wonder. Who acts: one, infant. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 100

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The youth was amazed beyond measure That one who appeared but an infant Should know all about his affairs, But he passed on in silence and wonder.

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**Who acts:** one, infant · **What happens:** amaze, appear, know, pass on · **To what, where:** youth, affairs, silence

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, infant), 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:pg78673:15:105
# text = The youth was amazed beyond measure That one who appeared but an infant Should know all about his affairs, But he passed on in silence and wonder.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	amazed	amaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amaze** | past · passive |  | the youth |  |  |  | beyond measure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **appear** | past | that one |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | should | a infant | infant's affairs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass on** | past | infant |  |  | silence and wonder |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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