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title: The squirrels rushed onward They rushed to the birch-tree: Yet only… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The squirrels rushed onward They rushed to the birch-tree: Yet only a few At once together Could climb up the trunk: Musesaaqua, the horse-fly, Was brave in that battle. Who acts: squirrels, wasps, few. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16, with its depende
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 83

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The squirrels rushed onward They rushed to the birch-tree: Yet only a few At once together Could climb up the trunk: Musesaaqua, the horse-fly, Was brave in that battle.

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**Who acts:** squirrels, wasps, few · **What happens:** rush, climb up · **To what, where:** trunk

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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 (squirrels, wasps, few), 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:pg78673:16:83
# text = The squirrels rushed onward They rushed to the birch-tree: Yet only a few At once together Could climb up the trunk: Musesaaqua, the horse-fly, Was brave in that battle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
17	At	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Musesaaqua	Musesaaqua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | the squirrels |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | past | wasps *= wasp* |  |  |  |  | to the birch tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result |
| 3 | **climb up** | could | a few | the trunk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trunk=Theme |

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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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