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title: High on the birch-tree Untouched by a foeman-- Sat the watchman-- Th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: High on the birch-tree Untouched by a foeman-- Sat the watchman-- The flies were victorious! Who acts: flies. 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 98

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High on the birch-tree Untouched by a foeman-- Sat the watchman-- The flies were victorious!

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**Who acts:** flies · **What happens:** be

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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 (flies), 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:pg78673:16:98
# text = High on the birch-tree Untouched by a foeman-- Sat the watchman-- The flies were victorious!
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	Untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foeman	foeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the flies |  |  |  |  | victorious *property* | tree rules |

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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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