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title: At last the injured wizard in despair Went to consult his uncle in t… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the injured wizard in despair Went to consult his uncle in the glade Where hang the alders drooping by the stream. Who acts: alders. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 32

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At last the injured wizard in despair Went to consult his uncle in the glade Where hang the alders drooping by the stream.

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**Who acts:** alders · **What happens:** injure, go, consult, hang, droop · **To what, where:** uncle, glade, alders

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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 (alders), 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:pg78673:15:32
# text = At last the injured wizard in despair Went to consult his uncle in the glade Where hang the alders drooping by the stream.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	glade	glade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
17	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	alders	alder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **injure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the last injured wizard in despair | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **consult** | to-infinitive |  | mischief's uncle |  | the glade |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | infinitive |  | the alders |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alder=Patient |
| 5 | **droop** | gerund | the alders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the stream | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Location |

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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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