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title: The sticks are described as about six inches in length, slender, alt… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The sticks are described as about six inches in length, slender, although varying in shape, and tied up in bundles.” A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 97

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The sticks are described as about six inches in length, slender, although varying in shape, and tied up in bundles.”

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**What happens:** describe, vary, tie up · **To what, where:** sticks, shape, bundles

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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: 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:pg78673:2:97
# text = The sticks are described as about six inches in length, slender, although varying in shape, and tied up in bundles.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | the sticks |  |  |  | as six inches in length | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as inch=Attribute |
| 2 | **vary** | gerund |  |  |  | shape |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tie up** | participle |  |  |  | bundles |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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