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title: Then, while they greatly wondered, Taking his axe, he showed them Ho… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, while they greatly wondered, Taking his axe, he showed them How to cut down trees in a hurry; But made it a condition That when the Raccoon should be taken They might have his meat and eat it, But the pelt should be his portion. Who acts: Twas, stranger, pelt. A sentence of «Kulóskap the maste
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 137

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Then, while they greatly wondered, Taking his axe, he showed them How to cut down trees in a hurry; But made it a condition That when the Raccoon should be taken They might have his meat and eat it, But the pelt should be his portion.

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**Who acts:** Twas, stranger, pelt · **What happens:** wonder, take, show, cut down, make, have · **To what, where:** axe, Twas, trees, hurry, tree, Raccoon

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twas, stranger, pelt), 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:pg78673:18:137
# text = Then, while they greatly wondered, Taking his axe, he showed them How to cut down trees in a hurry; But made it a condition That when the Raccoon should be taken They might have his meat and eat it, But the pelt should be his portion.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Raccoon	Raccoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
36	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	pelt	pelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
48	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  | then | greatly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Twas *= twa* *not said here* | stranger's axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | stranger | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cut down** | to-infinitive | stranger *not said here* | trees |  | a hurry |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product |
| 5 | **make** | past | Twas *= twa* *not said here* | tree |  |  |  | a condition *obj*; That *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | should · passive |  | the Raccoon |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 7 | **have** | might | Twas *= twa* | stranger's meat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 8 | **eat** | present | Twas *= twa* *not said here* | tree |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 9 | **is a** | should | the pelt | stranger's portion |  |  |  | stranger *nmod:poss* | 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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