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title: When all the land had heard That the Master would grant a wish To an… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: When all the land had heard That the Master would grant a wish To any who would seek him, Three Indians resolved That they would try this thing. Who acts: land, Master, Three Indians, Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree an
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

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When all the land had heard That the Master would grant a wish To any who would seek him, Three Indians resolved That they would try this thing.

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**Who acts:** land, Master, Three Indians, Indians · **What happens:** hear, grant, seek, resolve, try · **To what, where:** That, wish, any, Master, thing

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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 (land, Master, Three Indians, 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:pg78673:5:15
# text = When all the land had heard That the Master would grant a wish To any who would seek him, Three Indians resolved That they would try this thing.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	To	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | all land | That |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grant** | would | the Master | a wish |  |  |  | to any *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wish=Theme to any=Goal |
| 3 | **seek** | would |  | Master |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **resolve** | past | Three Indians | That |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | would | Indians *= indian* | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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