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title: A TALE OF THE RIVER-ELVES — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: A TALE OF THE RIVER-ELVES Who acts: RIVER ELVES. 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 34

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A TALE OF THE RIVER-ELVES

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**Who acts:** RIVER ELVES · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** TALE · **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 (RIVER ELVES), 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:pg78673:16:34
# text = A TALE OF THE RIVER-ELVES
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TALE	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	RIVER	RIVER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ELVES	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **tell** |  | the RIVER ELVES |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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