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title: He tried and found it as light As a _kchi bʾsnŭd_, or A basket made… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He tried and found it as light As a _kchi bʾsnŭd_, or A basket made of birch. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 147

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He tried and found it as light As a \_kchi bʾsnŭd\_, or A basket made of birch.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** try, find, make · **To what, where:** house, basket

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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 (man), 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:pg78673:18:147
# text = He tried and found it as light As a _kchi bʾsnŭd_, or A basket made of birch.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	As	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kchi	kchi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bʾsnŭd	bʾsnŭd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | man |  |  |  |  | a basket *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | past | man *not said here* | house |  |  |  | as light; as a kchi bʾsnŭd | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme as light=Attribute |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a basket *not said here* |  |  |  | of birch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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