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title: Then, pointing to the heaven, He taught the names of the stars, With… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, pointing to the heaven, He taught the names of the stars, With all the wonderful stories, The very old traditions, Of all that the planets had been. Who acts: thing. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

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Then, pointing to the heaven, He taught the names of the stars, With all the wonderful stories, The very old traditions, Of all that the planets had been.

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**Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** point, teach, name · **To what, where:** heaven, names, stars

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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 (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:pg78673:5:3
# text = Then, pointing to the heaven, He taught the names of the stars, With all the wonderful stories, The very old traditions, Of all that the planets had been.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	With	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  | the heaven |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heaven=Recipient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | thing | the names of the stars and all wonderful stories and the old traditions |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the stars and all wonderful stories and the old traditions |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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