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title: The door was closed, nor was there a crevice Through which the Red B… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The door was closed, nor was there a crevice Through which the Red Bird could creep to freedom When all at once she thought of the opening Through which the smoke from the fire ascended Ever upward so densely pouring Nobody deemed she would dare to pass it. Who acts: Red Bird, grandson, smoke, Nobod
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 93

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The door was closed, nor was there a crevice Through which the Red Bird could creep to freedom When all at once she thought of the opening Through which the smoke from the fire ascended Ever upward so densely pouring Nobody deemed she would dare to pass it.

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**Who acts:** Red Bird, grandson, smoke, Nobody · **What happens:** close, be, creep, think, ascend, pour · **To what, where:** door, crevice, all, opening, smoke

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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, grandson, smoke, Nobody), 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:pg78673:17:93
# text = The door was closed, nor was there a crevice Through which the Red Bird could creep to freedom When all at once she thought of the opening Through which the smoke from the fire ascended Ever upward so densely pouring Nobody deemed she would dare to pass it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
11	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
37	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	densely	densely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	advcl	_	_
42	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
43	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a crevice |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **creep** | could | the Red Bird | all |  | a crevice |  | to freedom | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | grandson |  |  |  |  | of the opening | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ascend** | past | the smoke from the fire |  |  | the opening | ever | upward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **pour** | gerund | the smoke from the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | densely *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **deem** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **dare** | would | grandson |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **pass** | to-infinitive | grandson *not said here* | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |

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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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