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title: For never in all his life Had he stolen any _Kwédŭn_ (Canoe) nor bor… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: For never in all his life Had he stolen any _Kwédŭn_ (Canoe) nor borrowed anything Without returning it promptly. Who acts: Badger. 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 64

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For never in all his life Had he stolen any \_Kwédŭn\_ (Canoe) nor borrowed anything Without returning it promptly.

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** steal, borrow, return · **To what, where:** Kwédŭn, anything

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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), 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:pg78673:5:64
# text = For never in all his life Had he stolen any _Kwédŭn_ (Canoe) nor borrowed anything Without returning it promptly.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Kwédŭn	Kwédŭn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	promptly	promptly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past · perfect | Badger | any Kwédŭn |  |  |  | for Badger's life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **borrow** | past | Badger *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | Badger *not said here* | Kwédŭn |  |  |  | promptly *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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