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title: No human being Was in the Northland, But o’er it all Was beautiful s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: No human being Was in the Northland, But o’er it all Was beautiful sunshine; There she beheld At a long distance A wonderful land: Broad shining lakes, High blue mountains, Bright rolling rivers All strange and sweet. Who acts: Laʿtogwesnuk, human Was Northland. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, a
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 118

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No human being Was in the Northland, But o’er it all Was beautiful sunshine; There she beheld At a long distance A wonderful land: Broad shining lakes, High blue mountains, Bright rolling rivers All strange and sweet.

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**Who acts:** Laʿtogwesnuk, human Was Northland · **What happens:** be, behold, shine, roll · **To what, where:** human Was Northland, beautiful sunshine, wonderful land

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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 (Laʿtogwesnuk, human Was Northland), 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:pg78673:16:118
# text = No human being Was in the Northland, But o’er it all Was beautiful sunshine; There she beheld At a long distance A wonderful land: Broad shining lakes, High blue mountains, Bright rolling rivers All strange and sweet.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
4	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Northland	Northland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
13	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	cop	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	At	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Broad	Broad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
39	All	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | no human Was Northland but beautiful sunshine |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** |  | Laʿtogwesnuk | beautiful sunshine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | past | no human Was Northland but beautiful sunshine | a wonderful land |  | there |  | at a long distance; Broad shining lakes and High blue mountains and Bright rolling rivers *obl*; heed *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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