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title: We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the _green_ leaves swir… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the _green_ leaves swirl on high When spring smiles on the mountain tops. Who acts: We, leaves, spring. 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 62

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We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the \_green\_ leaves swirl on high When spring smiles on the mountain tops.

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**Who acts:** We, leaves, spring · **What happens:** rove, watch, swirl, smile · **To what, where:** more, bark canoe, high, mountain tops

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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, leaves, spring), 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:pg78673:18:62
# text = We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the _green_ leaves swirl on high When spring smiles on the mountain tops.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rove	rove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	swirl	swirl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rove** | future | We | more |  | bark canoe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swirl** | present | leaves |  |  | high |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on high=Location |
| 4 | **smile** | present | spring |  |  | the mountain tops |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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