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title: These lines indicate the measure to which the whole was sung; _i.e._… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: These lines indicate the measure to which the whole was sung; _i.e._, they are a “staff-rhyme.” Who acts: lines. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 104

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These lines indicate the measure to which the whole was sung; \_i.e.\_, they are a “staff-rhyme.”

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**Who acts:** lines · **What happens:** indicate, sing, be · **To what, where:** measure, whole, staff rhyme · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lines), 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:pg78673:16:104
# text = These lines indicate the measure to which the whole was sung; _i.e._, they are a “staff-rhyme.”
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	indicate	indicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | this lines | the measure |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot measure=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · passive |  | the whole | the measure |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to which=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a staff rhyme |  |  |  | lines *= line* *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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