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title: Plîgun, “Cape Split” (P.); M. plekteok, “large handspikes for breaki… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Plîgun, “Cape Split” (P.); M. plekteok, “large handspikes for breaking open a beaver dam.” Who acts: large handspikes, Plîgun. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 238

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Plîgun, “Cape Split” (P.); M. plekteok, “large handspikes for breaking open a beaver dam.”

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**Who acts:** large handspikes, Plîgun · **What happens:** break, open · **To what, where:** beaver dam

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large handspikes, Plîgun), 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:pg78673:21:240
# text = Plîgun, “Cape Split” (P.); M. plekteok, “large handspikes for breaking open a beaver dam.”
1	Plîgun	Plîgun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Split	Split	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	plekteok	plekteok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	handspikes	handspike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | gerund | large handspikes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | Plîgun  M. plekteok and large handspikes | a beaver dam |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dam=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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