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title: For this Malsum had freely sworn To give the Beaver aught Or all tha… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For this Malsum had freely sworn To give the Beaver aught Or all that he might wish. Who acts: Malsum. 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 21

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For this Malsum had freely sworn To give the Beaver aught Or all that he might wish.

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**Who acts:** Malsum · **What happens:** swear, give, wish · **To what, where:** Malsum, aught

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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 (Malsum), 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:pg78673:4:21
# text = For this Malsum had freely sworn To give the Beaver aught Or all that he might wish.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Malsum	Malsum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	To	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
12	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	appos	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past · perfect · passive |  | this Malsum |  |  |  | freely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | aught |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | might | Malsum |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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