--- title: Once as an Indian girl Was gathering blue-berries, On Mount Katahdin… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics description: Once as an Indian girl Was gathering blue-berries, On Mount Katahdin’s side, She felt a strange loneliness, And said unto herself: “I would that I were wed Unto some brave great man!” Who acts: Indian girl, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian girl, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78673:18:90 # text = Once as an Indian girl Was gathering blue-berries, On Mount Katahdin’s side, She felt a strange loneliness, And said unto herself: “I would that I were wed Unto some brave great man!” 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 gathering gather VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 On on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 Mount Mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 Katahdin Katahdin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 18 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 loneliness loneliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 unto unto ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 wed w VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 ccomp _ _ 36 Unto unto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 38 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past · progressive | a Indian girl | blue berries | | Mount's side | | once *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | girl | a strange loneliness | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loneliness=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | unto girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **w** *in a quote* | would · passive | | that | | | | unto some brave great man; I *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/91/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/18/)