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title: Ere the first squirrel Was half-way up the birch-tree, He and his fo… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere the first squirrel Was half-way up the birch-tree, He and his followers Fell to the ground Wounded and dying. Who acts: Ere, squirrel. 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 85

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Ere the first squirrel Was half-way up the birch-tree, He and his followers Fell to the ground Wounded and dying.

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**Who acts:** Ere, squirrel · **What happens:** be, fall, die · **To what, where:** way

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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 (Ere, squirrel), 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:pg78673:16:85
# text = Ere the first squirrel Was half-way up the birch-tree, He and his followers Fell to the ground Wounded and dying.
1	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	Fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	Wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ere | way |  |  |  | up the birch tree; the first squirrel *nsubj*; half *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | squirrel |  |  |  |  | to the ground; wounded *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | gerund | squirrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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