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title: So searching he found a room In which there was a bed; A better he n… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So searching he found a room In which there was a bed; A better he ne’er had seen, All covered with the skin Of a snow-white northern bear. 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 149

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So searching he found a room In which there was a bed; A better he ne’er had seen, All covered with the skin Of a snow-white northern bear.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** search, find, ne'er, see, cover · **To what, where:** room, better ne’er, All

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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:pg78673:18:149
# text = So searching he found a room In which there was a bed; A better he ne’er had seen, All covered with the skin Of a snow-white northern bear.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | man | a room |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic |
| 3 | **ne'er** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | a better ne’er |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | All |  |  |  | with the skin of a white northern bear | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with skin=Theme |

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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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