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title: But when they came to the bay There was no canoe to be seen, But not… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they came to the bay There was no canoe to be seen, But not very far away, There arose a little island Of granite which was covered With pine-trees, tall and waving. Who acts: canoes. 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 65

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But when they came to the bay There was no canoe to be seen, But not very far away, There arose a little island Of granite which was covered With pine-trees, tall and waving.

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**Who acts:** canoes · **What happens:** come, see, be, cover, wave · **To what, where:** bay, granite

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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 (canoes), 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:pg78673:5:65
# text = But when they came to the bay There was no canoe to be seen, But not very far away, There arose a little island Of granite which was covered With pine-trees, tall and waving.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
22	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	With	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | canoes *= canoe* |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bay=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | there |  | a little island of granite *obj*; arise, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | granite |  |  |  | with pine trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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