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title: And many a thing he taught them: The noble art of hunting, How to bu… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

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And many a thing he taught them: The noble art of hunting, How to build huts and canoes, And weirs to catch the fishes, And how to trap the beaver, And net the shad and salmon.

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**Who acts:** many thing · **What happens:** teach, build, weir, catch, trap, net · **To what, where:** them, huts, fishes, beaver, shad

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many thing), 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:pg78673:5:1
# text = And many a thing he taught them: The noble art of hunting, How to build huts and canoes, And weirs to catch the fishes, And how to trap the beaver, And net the shad and salmon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	weirs	weir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	trap	trap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	net	net	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	shad	shad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | a many thing |  | them *= they* |  |  | thing *nsubj*; the noble art of hunting *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | huts and canoes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
| 3 | **weir** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | the fishes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 5 | **trap** | to-infinitive |  | the beaver |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Patient |
| 6 | **net** | infinitive |  | the shad and salmon |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme shad=Value |

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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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