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title: When in the morning They heard the signal, The song of awaking, Ring… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When in the morning They heard the signal, The song of awaking, Ring from the birch-tree, The mighty armies Again assembled; The chiefs held council; Thus spoke Sexkâtû While all were silent: Who acts: warriors, Ring, chiefs, all. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Openin
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 90

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When in the morning They heard the signal, The song of awaking, Ring from the birch-tree, The mighty armies Again assembled; The chiefs held council; Thus spoke Sexkâtû While all were silent:

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**Who acts:** warriors, Ring, chiefs, all, awaking · **What happens:** hear, assemble, hold, speak, be, sing · **To what, where:** signal, council, Sexkâtû · **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 (warriors, Ring, chiefs, all), 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:pg78673:16:90
# text = When in the morning They heard the signal, The song of awaking, Ring from the birch-tree, The mighty armies Again assembled; The chiefs held council; Thus spoke Sexkâtû While all were silent:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	awaking	awaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
25	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	Sexkâtû	Sexkâtû	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the signal |  |  | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **assemble** | past | Ring from the birch tree and the mighty armies |  |  |  | again |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the chiefs | council |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Ring from the birch tree and the mighty armies *not said here* | Sexkâtû |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sing** |  | awaking |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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