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title: So the great Lord perceived That of all creatures born Who walked up… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: So the great Lord perceived That of all creatures born Who walked upon the earth The first and best was Man. Who acts: great Lord, creatures. 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 123

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So the great Lord perceived That of all creatures born Who walked upon the earth The first and best was Man.

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**Who acts:** great Lord, creatures · **What happens:** perceive, bear, walk, be · **To what, where:** That, creatures, earth, best Man

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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 (great Lord, creatures), 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:pg78673:4:123
# text = So the great Lord perceived That of all creatures born Who walked upon the earth The first and best was Man.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the great Lord | That of all creatures |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | all creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **walk** | past | all creatures |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | past | all creatures *not said here* | best Man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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