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title: The brother, having obtained the scrapings of the horn, merely touch… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The brother, having obtained the scrapings of the horn, merely touches with them a large green beech tree which becomes dead in an instant and then falls to the ground, actually rotten as if it were a century old. Who acts: brother, large green beech tree, tree. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, a
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 24

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The brother, having obtained the scrapings of the horn, merely touches with them a large green beech tree which becomes dead in an instant and then falls to the ground, actually rotten as if it were a century old.

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**Who acts:** brother, large green beech tree, tree · **What happens:** obtain, become, fall, be · **To what, where:** scrapings, instant, century, brother

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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 (brother, large green beech tree, tree), 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:pg78673:16:24
# text = The brother, having obtained the scrapings of the horn, merely touches with them a large green beech tree which becomes dead in an instant and then falls to the ground, actually rotten as if it were a century old.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scrapings	scraping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | gerund · perfect | the brother *not said here* | the scrapings of the horn  a large green beech tree and touches with touches |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scraping=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | present | a large green beech tree |  |  |  |  | in a instant *result*; dead *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Result |
| 3 | **fall** | present | a large green beech tree *not said here* |  |  |  | then | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | tree | a century |  |  |  |  | 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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