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title: The Passamaquoddies followed them as soon as day broke, but the trac… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Passamaquoddies followed them as soon as day broke, but the tracks were so scattered that they could not find the refugees. Who acts: Passamaquoddies, Mohawks. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 80

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The Passamaquoddies followed them as soon as day broke, but the tracks were so scattered that they could not find the refugees.

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**Who acts:** Passamaquoddies, Mohawks · **What happens:** follow, break, scatter, not find · **To what, where:** Mohawks, tracks, refugees

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passamaquoddies, Mohawks), 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:pg78673:2:80
# text = The Passamaquoddies followed them as soon as day broke, but the tracks were so scattered that they could not find the refugees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Passamaquoddies | Mohawks *= mohawk* |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | the Passamaquoddies *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | the tracks |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **find** | could | Mohawks *= mohawk* | the refugees |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refugee=Topic |

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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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