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title: He told them that the water Would rise o’er the heads of all; They s… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He told them that the water Would rise o’er the heads of all; They said, “Should this come to pass, We shall all be very wet.” Who acts: man, water, RATTLESNAKES, this. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 90

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He told them that the water Would rise o’er the heads of all; They said, “Should this come to pass, We shall all be very wet.”

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**Who acts:** man, water, RATTLESNAKES, this, We · **What happens:** tell, rise, say, come, pass, be · **To what, where:** RATTLESNAKES · **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 (man, water, RATTLESNAKES, this), 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:pg78673:4:90
# text = He told them that the water Would rise o’er the heads of all; They said, “Should this come to pass, We shall all be very wet.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
9	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rise** *not said to happen* | would | the water |  |  |  |  | o'er the heads of all | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | should | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | We |  |  |  |  | all, wet *property* | 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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