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title: The Beaver being asked What he would do, replied That he would seek… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Beaver being asked What he would do, replied That he would seek a stream Ere he would face mankind. Who acts: Beaver, That. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 122

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The Beaver being asked What he would do, replied That he would seek a stream Ere he would face mankind.

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**Who acts:** Beaver, That · **What happens:** ask, do, reply, seek, face · **To what, where:** Beaver, stream, mankind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Beaver, That), 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:pg78673:4:122
# text = The Beaver being asked What he would do, replied That he would seek a stream Ere he would face mankind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive |  | the Beaver |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | would | Beaver |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | would | That | a stream |  |  |  | Beaver *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme |
| 5 | **face** | would | Beaver | mankind |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mankind=Destination |

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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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