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title: So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no o… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no one could behold Who saw them not with eyes As every one could see them. Who acts: mother, husband, one. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 15

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So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no one could behold Who saw them not with eyes As every one could see them.

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**Who acts:** mother, husband, one · **What happens:** bade, put, behold, not see, see · **To what, where:** certain things, things, eyes

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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 (mother, husband, one), 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:pg78673:18:15
# text = So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no one could behold Who saw them not with eyes As every one could see them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | mother |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | mother's husband | certain things |  |  |  | on sight | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on he=Destination |
| 3 | **behold** | could | no one | certain things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  | Who *nsubj*; eyes *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | could | every one | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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