--- title: Red squirrels, gray squirrels, Striped squirrels, flying ones, Came… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Red squirrels, gray squirrels, Striped squirrels, flying ones, Came running together, Then they cried out: “Lappilatwan Must leave his tree, And if it may be, Be put to death!” Who acts: Red squirrels, birds, Lappilatwan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red squirrels, birds, Lappilatwan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:16:78 # text = Red squirrels, gray squirrels, Striped squirrels, flying ones, Came running together, Then they cried out: “Lappilatwan Must leave his tree, And if it may be, Be put to death!” 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Striped striped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 Came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Lappilatwan Lappilatwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 Must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | Red squirrels and gray squirrels and Striped squirrels and flying ones | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | gerund | Red squirrels and gray squirrels and Striped squirrels and flying ones *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | birds *= bird* | | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | must | Lappilatwan | squirrel's tree | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/16/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/16/79/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/16/)