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title: Therefore he could not wait, And he had not gone very far Into the w… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he could not wait, And he had not gone very far Into the woods, ere he Sat down and opened the bag. Who acts: Master, ere. 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 37

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Therefore he could not wait, And he had not gone very far Into the woods, ere he Sat down and opened the bag.

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**Who acts:** Master, ere · **What happens:** not wait, not go, sit down, open · **To what, where:** bag

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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 (Master, ere), 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:pg78673:5:37
# text = Therefore he could not wait, And he had not gone very far Into the woods, ere he Sat down and opened the bag.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	Sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | could | Master |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Master |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | ere |  |  |  |  | Master *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **open** | past | ere *not said here* | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=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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