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title: Taking the Leaf in her bill, the Red Bird Flew through the forest am… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking the Leaf in her bill, the Red Bird Flew through the forest among the branches To the great tree which grew secluded In the safest place in all the mountain. Who acts: Red Bird, Tempest. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree a
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 60

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Taking the Leaf in her bill, the Red Bird Flew through the forest among the branches To the great tree which grew secluded In the safest place in all the mountain.

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**Who acts:** Red Bird, Tempest · **What happens:** take, fly, seclude, bill · **To what, where:** Leaf, bill, forest, great tree, safest place

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Bird, Tempest), 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:pg78673:17:60
# text = Taking the Leaf in her bill, the Red Bird Flew through the forest among the branches To the great tree which grew secluded In the safest place in all the mountain.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Leaf	Leaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	Flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	To	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	secluded	seclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	In	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | the Red Bird *not said here* | the Leaf |  | Tempest's bill |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Value in bill=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the Red Bird |  |  | the forest |  | among the branches; to the great tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through forest=Initial\_Location among branch=Trajectory to tree=Destination |
| 3 | **seclude** | past · passive |  | the great tree |  | the safest place in all mountain |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in place=Location |
| 4 | **bill** |  | Tempest |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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