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title: Then the Badger solemnly swore That, as he was an honest Indian, He… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Badger solemnly swore That, as he was an honest Indian, He would, when the need was over, Indeed return the canoe. Who acts: Badger, need. 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 63

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Then the Badger solemnly swore That, as he was an honest Indian, He would, when the need was over, Indeed return the canoe.

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**Who acts:** Badger, need · **What happens:** swear, be · **To what, where:** That

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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 (Badger, need), 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:pg78673:5:63
# text = Then the Badger solemnly swore That, as he was an honest Indian, He would, when the need was over, Indeed return the canoe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | the Badger | That |  |  | then | solemnly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Badger |  |  |  |  | indian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the need |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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