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title: But as there was no answer He paddled, saying nothing, Over the bay… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But as there was no answer He paddled, saying nothing, Over the bay to the landing, And there the dogs were waiting! Who acts: dog, dogs. 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 64

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But as there was no answer He paddled, saying nothing, Over the bay to the landing, And there the dogs were waiting!

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**Who acts:** dog, dogs · **What happens:** be, say, wait · **To what, where:** nothing, bay · **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 (dog, dogs), 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:pg78673:4:64
# text = But as there was no answer He paddled, saying nothing, Over the bay to the landing, And there the dogs were waiting!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | paddle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | dog *not said here* | nothing |  | the bay to the landing |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** | past · progressive | the dogs |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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