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title: However, Lox the Believing, Said, “What is good for once Must surely… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: However, Lox the Believing, Said, “What is good for once Must surely be good for ever,” And made up a pile of sticks, Then gayly jumping over Awaited the cheerful blaze. Who acts: Lox, Must. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 31

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However, Lox the Believing, Said, “What is good for once Must surely be good for ever,” And made up a pile of sticks, Then gayly jumping over Awaited the cheerful blaze.

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**Who acts:** Lox, Must · **What happens:** be, make up, jump, await · **To what, where:** pile, cheerful blaze

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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 (Lox, Must), 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:pg78673:19:31
# text = However, Lox the Believing, Said, “What is good for once Must surely be good for ever,” And made up a pile of sticks, Then gayly jumping over Awaited the cheerful blaze.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Lox	Lox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Believing	Believing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Said	Said	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
15	Must	Must	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	gayly	gayly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
33	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
34	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	Awaited	await	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Lox  Said |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; good, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Must |  |  |  |  | good, once, surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make up** | past | Lox  Said *not said here* | a pile of sticks |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pile=Pivot |
| 4 | **be** |  | Lox  Said *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump** | gerund | Lox  Said *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **await** | participle | Lox  Said *not said here* | the cheerful blaze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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