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title: Heard what the Lord had said, And hastening to Malsumsis Told him th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Heard what the Lord had said, And hastening to Malsumsis Told him the whole. Who acts: Lord, hastening. 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 20

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Heard what the Lord had said, And hastening to Malsumsis Told him the whole.

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**Who acts:** Lord, hastening · **What happens:** hear, say, hasten, tell · **To what, where:** Malsumsis, Lord · **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 (Lord, hastening), 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:pg78673:4:20
# text = Heard what the Lord had said, And hastening to Malsumsis Told him the whole.
1	Heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Malsumsis	Malsumsis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Lord |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **hasten** | gerund |  |  | Malsumsis |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to malsumsis=Result |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | hastening |  | Lord |  |  | whole *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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