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title: Thus it fared with the beautiful Red Bird; When the old Monimques be… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it fared with the beautiful Red Bird; When the old Monimques beheld her, Long he was silent, then said: “My grandson! Who acts: Fire, old Monimques, Monimques. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 81

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Thus it fared with the beautiful Red Bird; When the old Monimques beheld her, Long he was silent, then said: “My grandson!

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**Who acts:** Fire, old Monimques, Monimques · **What happens:** fare, behold, be, say · **To what, where:** life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fire, old Monimques, Monimques), 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:pg78673:17:81
# text = Thus it fared with the beautiful Red Bird; When the old Monimques beheld her, Long he was silent, then said: “My grandson!
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Monimques	Monimques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fare** | past | Fire |  |  |  |  | with the beautiful Red Bird; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | past | the old Monimques | life |  |  |  | Long *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Monimques |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fire *not said here* |  |  |  | then | My grandson *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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