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title: And up he flew to the food, Which was the early buds Of the birch on… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And up he flew to the food, Which was the early buds Of the birch on which they hung. Who acts: man, food, buds. 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 155

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And up he flew to the food, Which was the early buds Of the birch on which they hung.

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**Who acts:** man, food, buds · **What happens:** fly, be, hang · **To what, where:** food, early buds, birch

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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, food, buds), 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:pg78673:18:155
# text = And up he flew to the food, Which was the early buds Of the birch on which they hung.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | man |  |  | the food and the early buds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to food=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the food and the early buds | the early buds |  |  |  | of the birch | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | past | buds *= bud* |  |  | the birch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |

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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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