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title: When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, H… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, How fair the hills and how we watched The _red_ leaves whirling in the breeze. Who acts: we, red _. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 59

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When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, How fair the hills and how we watched The \_red\_ leaves whirling in the breeze.

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**Who acts:** we, red \_ · **What happens:** glide, glisten, watch, leave, whirl · **To what, where:** glistening lake, breeze

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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 (we, red \_), 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:pg78673:18:59
# text = When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, How fair the hills and how we watched The _red_ leaves whirling in the breeze.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	glide	glide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
27	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past · do-support | we |  |  | glistening lake and the fair hills |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | present | the red \_ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **whirl** | gerund | the red \_ *not said here* |  |  | the breeze |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory |

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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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