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title: When these small cakes of clay were fresh some Indians there were Wh… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When these small cakes of clay were fresh some Indians there were Who learned to eat them and to take great pleasure in their taste. Who acts: small cakes, fresh Indians, cakes. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 40

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When these small cakes of clay were fresh some Indians there were Who learned to eat them and to take great pleasure in their taste.

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**Who acts:** small cakes, fresh Indians, cakes · **What happens:** be, learn, eat, take, taste · **To what, where:** cakes, great pleasure, taste

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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 (small cakes, fresh Indians, cakes), 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:pg78673:16:40
# text = When these small cakes of clay were fresh some Indians there were Who learned to eat them and to take great pleasure in their taste.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this small cakes of clay |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | some fresh Indians |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | cakes *= cake* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | great pleasure |  | cakes's taste |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in taste=Location |
| 6 | **taste** |  | cakes *= cake* |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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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