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title: There they lived and were perfectly happy, Nothing but kind words pa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: There they lived and were perfectly happy, Nothing but kind words passed between them, Only kind words and favorite songs. Who acts: branches. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 62

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There they lived and were perfectly happy, Nothing but kind words passed between them, Only kind words and favorite songs.

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**Who acts:** branches · **What happens:** live, be, pass · **To what, where:** kind words

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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 (branches), 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:pg78673:17:62
# text = There they lived and were perfectly happy, Nothing but kind words passed between them, Only kind words and favorite songs.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | branches *= branch* |  |  | there |  | kind words and kind words and favorite songs *conj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | kind words and kind words and favorite songs *not said here* |  |  |  | between branches *= branch* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location |

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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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