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title: Then every bird Every small insect, All creeping things Who heard hi… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then every bird Every small insect, All creeping things Who heard his song, Knew there was coming A beautiful day: “Let us arise! Who acts: bird, creeping things, small insect, us. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 61

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Then every bird Every small insect, All creeping things Who heard his song, Knew there was coming A beautiful day: “Let us arise!

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**Who acts:** bird, creeping things, small insect, us, thing · **What happens:** insect, creep, hear, come, let, arise · **To what, where:** song, us · **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 (bird, creeping things, small insect, us), 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:pg78673:16:61
# text = Then every bird Every small insect, All creeping things Who heard his song, Knew there was coming A beautiful day: “Let us arise!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Knew	Knew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insect** |  | every bird |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | all creeping things  Knew | thing's song |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past · progressive | every small insect |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **arise** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sing** |  | thing |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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