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title: Now you may hear what happened To several of these seekers, Even as… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you may hear what happened To several of these seekers, Even as I heard the tales From a Passamaquoddy _Sénap_. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 14

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Now you may hear what happened To several of these seekers, Even as I heard the tales From a Passamaquoddy \_Sénap\_.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hear, happen · **To what, where:** several, tales, Passamaquoddy Sénap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I), 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:pg78673:5:14
# text = Now you may hear what happened To several of these seekers, Even as I heard the tales From a Passamaquoddy _Sénap_.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	To	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	seekers	seeker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	From	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Sénap	Sénap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | may | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  | several of this seekers |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I | the tales |  | a Passamaquoddy Sénap |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Topic from sénap=Source |

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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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