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title: Could not hear my songs From another tree; You, who are so clever, F… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Could not hear my songs From another tree; You, who are so clever, Far quicker than I am. Who acts: You, my. 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 73

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Could not hear my songs From another tree; You, who are so clever, Far quicker than I am.

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**Who acts:** You, my · **What happens:** not hear, be, sing · **To what, where:** songs, tree

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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 (You, my), 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:pg78673:16:73
# text = Could not hear my songs From another tree; You, who are so clever, Far quicker than I am.
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	From	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | could |  | my songs |  | another tree |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent song=Topic from tree=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | 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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