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title: Howbeit in later days, Miʿko was Kulóskap’s dog, And, when the Maste… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Howbeit in later days, Miʿko was Kulóskap’s dog, And, when the Master willed, He oft grew large again Touched by the Master’s hand, And slew his fiercest foes. Who acts: Miʿko, Master. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 115

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Howbeit in later days, Miʿko was Kulóskap’s dog, And, when the Master willed, He oft grew large again Touched by the Master’s hand, And slew his fiercest foes.

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**Who acts:** Miʿko, Master · **What happens:** be, will, grow, touch, slay · **To what, where:** dog, fiercest foes

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miʿko, Master), 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:pg78673:4:115
# text = Howbeit in later days, Miʿko was Kulóskap’s dog, And, when the Master willed, He oft grew large again Touched by the Master’s hand, And slew his fiercest foes.
1	Howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	Miʿko	Miʿko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	willed	will	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	Touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Miʿko | Kulóskap's dog |  |  |  | Kulóskap *nmod:poss*; howbeit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **will** | past | the Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Miʿko |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | participle | Miʿko *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the Master's hand *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slay** | past | Miʿko *not said here* | Miʿko's fiercest foes |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=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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