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title: The wizard beaver then Swam back to his own folk To whom he said: “A… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The wizard beaver then Swam back to his own folk To whom he said: “Arise, Come, quickly hunt them out.” Who acts: wizard beaver, beaver. 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 4

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The wizard beaver then Swam back to his own folk To whom he said: “Arise, Come, quickly hunt them out.”

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**Who acts:** wizard beaver, beaver · **What happens:** swim back, say, arise, come, hunt out · **To what, where:** own folk, holes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wizard beaver, beaver), 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:pg78673:15:4
# text = The wizard beaver then Swam back to his own folk To whom he said: “Arise, Come, quickly hunt them out.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	Swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	To	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim back** | past | the wizard beaver |  |  | beaver's own folk | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to folk=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | beaver |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **arise** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | holes *= hole* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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