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title: Thus saying, He piled up the sticks again, And had a third fire--alt… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saying, He piled up the sticks again, And had a third fire--although The first night had not come. Who acts: weather, first night. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 27

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Thus saying, He piled up the sticks again, And had a third fire--although The first night had not come.

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**Who acts:** weather, first night · **What happens:** say, pile up, have, not come · **To what, where:** sticks, third fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, first night), 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:pg78673:19:27
# text = Thus saying, He piled up the sticks again, And had a third fire--although The first night had not come.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	piled	pile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pile up** | past | weather | the sticks |  |  | again |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | a third fire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past | the first night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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