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title: He bade them be good and quiet, And pray to escape from drowning; Th… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade them be good and quiet, And pray to escape from drowning; They whooped and hurrahed to mock him. Who acts: water, RATTLESNAKES. 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 91

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He bade them be good and quiet, And pray to escape from drowning; They whooped and hurrahed to mock him.

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**Who acts:** water, RATTLESNAKES · **What happens:** bade, be, pray, escape, drown, whoop · **To what, where:** RATTLESNAKES, water

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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 (water, RATTLESNAKES), 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:pg78673:4:91
# text = He bade them be good and quiet, And pray to escape from drowning; They whooped and hurrahed to mock him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	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	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	whooped	whoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hurrahed	hurrah	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	mock	mock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | water | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pray** | present | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **escape** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drown** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **whoop** *speech: other* | past | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hurrah** | past | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mock** | to-infinitive | RATTLESNAKES *= rattlesnake* *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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