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title: For there were venison, Bear hams and many ducks, Buckets of maple s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For there were venison, Bear hams and many ducks, Buckets of maple sugar, Others of cranberries, And many golden ears Of drying Indian corn. Who acts: many golden ears. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 152

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For there were venison, Bear hams and many ducks, Buckets of maple sugar, Others of cranberries, And many golden ears Of drying Indian corn.

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**Who acts:** many golden ears · **What happens:** be, dry · **To what, where:** many golden ears, Indian corn

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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 (many golden ears), 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:pg78673:18:152
# text = For there were venison, Bear hams and many ducks, Buckets of maple sugar, Others of cranberries, And many golden ears Of drying Indian corn.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
4	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hams	ham	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
25	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | many golden ears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry** | gerund | many golden ears *not said here* | Indian corn |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient corn=Result |

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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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