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title: And yet at a later day At a place afar in the North, There were many… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet at a later day At a place afar in the North, There were many Indians assembled When there came a strange commotion. Who acts: many Indians. 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 66

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And yet at a later day At a place afar in the North, There were many Indians assembled When there came a strange commotion.

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**Who acts:** many Indians · **What happens:** be, assemble, come · **To what, where:** strange commotion

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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 (many Indians), 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:pg78673:4:66
# text = And yet at a later day At a place afar in the North, There were many Indians assembled When there came a strange commotion.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	At	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	commotion	commotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many Indians *not said here* |  |  | there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **assemble** | past | many Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | many Indians *not said here* | a strange commotion |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location commotion=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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